Lagumdžija helps Dodik to stop arms sales from FBiH to Ukraine

All previous speculations that the former SDPBiH president Zlatko Lagumdžija, who clearly cannot come to terms with the fact that he is no longer in charge of anything, is working behind Nermin Nikšić's back and pursuing a parallel party policy have definitely proven true in another example - stopping the sale of weapons from FBiH to Ukraine, writes the Patria News Agency.

In cooperation with the leaders of HDZBiH and SBB, Dragan Čović and Fahrudin Radončić, and by collapsing the existing coalition of SDA-DF-HDZBIH and the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats of RS, he is trying to force his way into a new "imagined coalition" at all costs, where he would naturally find a position for himself in some ministerial chair.

First, Lagumdžija reconciled with Čović through Radončić's mediation. Then, naturally, the leader of SNSD, Milorad Dodik, joined them.

Nikšić's meetings with Komšić, and then with the Deputy President of SDA, Bakir Izetbegović, and the discussion about unblocking the process of establishing government in FBiH, do not suit Lagumdžija at all, who has already arranged everything with Čović, Radončić, and Dodik.

Until he solidified the agreement with them, ministers from SDP were legalists in the chain of issuing permits to the company UNIS Group Ilidža for the export of weapons from FBiH to Ukraine, and they gave their consent.

Then Dodik enters the scene, who, in order to block the export of weapons, orders his Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Boris Tučić, to resign and not sign the permit.

Lagumdžija wholeheartedly joins Dodik in this obstruction, ordering Tučić's deputy, Ermina Salkičević-Dizdarević (SDP), to delay the permit issuance process.

She justifies herself in public by saying that Tučić did everything himself, and that she is not familiar with the case. She announced she would sign only after reviewing the entire situation.

Thus, Lagumdžija has joined forces with Dodik, whom he has long called "Mićko," and blocked the further development of the defense industry of FBiH. Helping Dodik is the only way for him to sit in a ministerial chair again. Because after 25 years of a comfortable life in politics, it is not easy to engage in real work.