Our Party and the Municipality are More Important Than the State: Why is the Referendum a Problem for the 'Liberals', but not Dodik, Čović, Secession, Vukoja?

By: Rasim Belko

The citizens of the Centar Municipality will decide on the work of Srđan Mandić during his mandate as mayor over the past almost three years. Democracy in action and the best way to evaluate those in power. In some countries, a referendum is a lever by which citizens correct mistakes made in elections.

However, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the vision of the "liberal" Our Party, a referendum is cowardice, brutality, and uncivilized. At least that's how Srđan Mandić assesses it, fearing the irreversible loss of his mayoral position. This is also unfair to the president of Our Party, Edin Forto, and for Amra Zulfikarpašić, a councilor close to Our Party, it is an attack on the people of Sarajevo.

Therefore, what is a kind of Eid or Christmas of democracy in the developed world is an anti-civilizational attack for Our Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because the liberalism of Our Party is not, and has never been, reflected in the postulates of genuine liberalism and democracy, but exclusively in liberalism as a mantra used to gain positions with international power. And afterwards, liberalism becomes conformism.

And in that conformism, the political beneficiaries of Our Party have hidden themselves in the vertical and horizontal of power. Although they have bombarded us for years with principledness and vital responsibility of the elected, once they got into positions, they experienced complete political amnesia.

And yes, before I continue, so that the liberals don't declare me a NiP radical, let me point out that NiP, like Our Party, has identical ideals of liberalism and conformism. So they can freely write the ultra-discriminatory slogan of SDA, but they can't embellish further.

But let's return to Our Party, for whom it is completely liberal, not to say principled, to elect a person from the blacklist to the leadership of the BiH Parliament. Then, it is principled and in line with their program for the Council of Ministers and the BiH Parliament to do everything contrary to the interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is principled and liberal for the president of Our Party to remain silent when Dodik curses genocide. It is principled for a liberal party to have absolutely no press conferences on the anti-democratic and anti-civilizational laws in Republika Srpska, from the one that abolishes the Constitutional Court to the one on defamation.

Our Party is also principled when the President of the Federation of BiH, Lidija Bradara, and the Minister of Culture, Sanja Vlaisavljević, try to rehabilitate war criminals who almost destroyed central Bosnia. Our Party is also principled and liberal when Marin Vukoja, proposed by Čović, is attempted to be installed in the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina outside of rules and laws, through forgery. They are also principled in defending the forger Mladen Bošković.

Our Party has principledly defended that Bošković, but also stood by him every time he tried to propose Vukoja exclusively for the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina outside of procedures.

Our Party is principled when it needs to defend Marijo Karamatić, who considers the Sarajevo Canton occupied territory. Then the liberals of Our Party openly opposed SDA, DF, Party of BiH, and NES, who wanted Karamatić to be removed from the session due to hate speech. However, Our Party is very principled when anyone from Sarajevo says something patriotic, nationalistic, and then classifies it as hate speech. Because for them, patriotism and nationalism are hate speech.

Just as for their abstract figurehead Damir Nikšić, the unconstitutional call to abolish constitutionality according to the ECtHR judgments and the accusation of UZP, according to the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, are acceptable.

These are all the principles of Our Party's liberalism, which they advocate on the rails of the 'troika' led by Adnan Šteta. Everything beyond that is abstract for them, because Our Party as a project was clearly not made to engage in politics outside of Sarajevo. Does this mean it was made as a trigger for the internal collapse of pro-Bosnian politics in Sarajevo, let the public judge? But the fact that, for example, in Tuzla, Our Party can hardly find common ground with SDP, perhaps says enough!

And then Mandić, who says that a referendum where citizens will evaluate his work is cowardice.

Mandić's recall and Our Party's reaction to it should finally clear the darkness before the eyes of liberalism enthusiasts. Because that party was not created to organize Bosnia and Herzegovina according to some European model, but to be a burden on every patriotic project through budget infusions.

And anyone who follows the political situation on the pro-Bosnian front even a little will remember that every attempt at national unification of Sarajevo parties against secessionist policies was undermined and attacked precisely by the liberal Our Party.

Until it managed to separate a part of the political power from that pro-Bosnian spectrum and turn them towards HDZ and SNSD. And therefore, once again, I will conclude the text by calling on the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to get rid of this project in the elections, whose foundation is hidden in the secret plan of the forward command post of Croatian politics, while in visible segments they act as an installation system for everything that comes from the West, and which we do not want. And then, with Western funds, liberalism is imposed, and at the same time, our right to choose is stifled.

That is why a referendum is anti-civilizational for Mandić and Our Party, while cursing genocide and attacking the constitutional order is a "game for political points".

Let's get rid of them, we will get opportunities in the next three years, we just need to get out of the offside position!