HDZ called on Milanović to continue criminal policy towards BiH: Citizens demand he air out Pantovčak

Amina Čorbo-Zećo

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The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) thanked all Croatian women and men, all members, associates and sympathizers, and all voters in Bosnia and Herzegovina who voted in the second round of the presidential elections in the Republic of Croatia.

Dragan Čović continued in the same vein with a statement. He literally called on Zoran Milanović to address the legitimate representatives in BiH. With this, Čović directly called on the new Croatian president Milanović to continue Croatia's terrible policy towards BiH. However, citizens who voted for Milanović expect him to withdraw the official stance of Pantovčak, stated out of Kolinda Grabar Kitarović's hysteria, that BiH is a hotbed of Islamist terrorists.

Given that Milanović himself emphasized that citizens voted for him, understanding is expected in that sense.

I will quote my colleague Nermin Bise, who wrote an open letter to Milanović.

"We here in the neighborhood are citizens and we ask for nothing more than that our civil rights in the elections in our country are respected and honored. As citizens, we want and wish to elect just like these million-plus in Croatia. So Zoki, take an official stance from Pantovčak on these grounds and principles. Don't sing the song of the outgoing president who treated us as if horses choose horses, donkeys choose donkeys, and oxen choose oxen.

Let your course be that citizens choose Dragons in the neighborhood. That's what they call us anyway, Zoki. Dragons of Bosnia. Citizens! And to conclude my inaugural letter, and I will write to you more, when you respect these two points, then we, as neighbors, can say Thank God, here is a neighbor president with character," Bise wrote.

"The goal of Croatian policy in BiH is the complete constitutional and legal and institutional equality of the Croatian people with the other two constituent peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and no institutional solution that does not start from this standard is acceptable to us. We hope that in the time ahead, the legitimate political representatives of the Croatian people in BiH will continue to have the full support of the Republic of Croatia and positive continuity towards the Croatian people, one of the three constituent peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our task in BiH is to achieve a complete constitutional and legal organization of BiH as a multinational state of three constituent peoples and all its citizens, with the support of the Republic of Croatia," the HDZ stated in their announcement.