Milović: A wave of Herceg-Bosna renaissance has begun, Komšić and Kovačević cannot stop it!

(Patria) - Tvrtko Milović, former propagandist for the leader of HDZ BiH, Dragan Čović, and now a social media journalist for the joint candidate of the Croatian opposition's 'Pentagon' for the BiH Presidency, Zdenko Lučić, announced himself today on Facebook with a post he titled 'Democratic Renaissance in Herceg-Bosna'.

We are publishing Milović's post below.

"The media are screaming these days about who was where during the war, who is a smuggler, who is a criminal... No, these are not the usual accolades on the Bosniak political scene.

This is not Vukanović's shouting from the back row. This is a discourse between the absolute ruler of the ring in the Croatian political corpus, Dragan Čović, in all categories, and his challenger, Zdenko Lučić.

The experienced Čović, accustomed to knocking out opponents within ten seconds of the first round, has this time faced an opponent with good footwork, fast and frequent hooks from both the left and the right.

Currently, Čović is a little nervous, nothing serious. But, for the first time in the Herceg-Bosna ring, the opponents are going into the second round.

This fight, which the BiH Croats are watching with wide eyes and mouths agape in wonder, should have taken place twenty years ago. But Komšić, with 100,000 Bosniaks, interrupted it.

And so, Croats have been waiting 20 years for the storm to pass, for the people to continue where they left off. That is why one of the topics is 'where were you in '91?'. The topic is old, perhaps irrelevant, but it cannot be skipped.

For the last twenty years, alone in the Herceg-Bosna ring, Čović has imposed his rules of the fight. His discourse.

One can only play by his rules, use his topics, his narrative… one can only talk about the election law and equality.

No raised voices, no rudeness, no unfairness, no low blows. His entourage, always in the same pose and in silence, stands behind him, ready to reinforce his position with their bodies but not their minds.

Čova imposed the rules of the game in which he is invincible. The opposition, which agreed to those rules, always lost.

The idea that all parties should join the HNS to deal with democracy there is equivalent to the Gestapo's idea of showering upon entering the camp.

The chances of Croatian parties to later enter the ring with Čović as equals are the same as the chances of Jews to emerge clean after showering in Treblinka and go for a cake.

Now, when the Croatian people have become accustomed to watching Čović for twenty years, one hand beating the opposition and the other politely covering his mouth while yawning, a new player enters. Fresh, prepared, and motivated. Suddenly, we are watching Mike Tyson against Buster Douglas.

An important process is unfolding in the audience. The audience is finally seeing something new. For the first time, the Croatian people see Čović accusing someone of malfeasance. For the first time, Čović is questioning someone's war record. For the first time, Čović is defending his personal integrity in this way.

For the Croatian people, this is not only proof that he is also an emotional being, but it is proof that among Croats there is someone willing to oppose a hitherto unquestioned authority.

What follows is so typical of all Slavic peoples: the dam of moderation that Čović built long ago is breaking. Suddenly, everyone is insulting, shouting, and threatening.

Sides are being taken, and the heaviest weapons are being drawn, the kind we only see from Bosniak commentators if Herceg-Bosna is in the headline.

The flood of democratic renaissance in just a few days has formed a tidal wave whose direction and destination no one knows.

The Croatian opposition will most certainly surf this wave, because the alternative for them is to drown.

In the tidal wave of questions about who is a thief, who steals, who appoints whom and where, who takes public money, who is competent and who is not, and all those questions we ask in cafes but forget by the time we get home, old narratives have no chance.

The Croatian people in Herceg-Bosna are experiencing a democratic renaissance that a sandbag like Komšić and a plank like Kovačević cannot stop."