DO NOT ABSTAIN You elected the budget apocalypse called the Three, realized your mistake, it's time to fix it!

By: Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

They were hope. For many. They managed to convince the wider public that they would be better. More transparent. That they would build infrastructure, create jobs, prosecute corruption, bring back young people…

Many of you could hear them saying in the times before the changes, I would say apocalyptic changes, “enough of these too, they have ruled for 30 years, it must be better when the new ones come” and the like.

And the new ones came, and how much of a change came with them will best be illustrated by the fact that today in Sarajevo Canton there is no one satisfied. Educators are dissatisfied. Even more dissatisfied are parents whose children they want to enroll in files because they have physiological needs during class.

It’s no better for healthcare workers. And you can imagine how it is for patients. These healthcare workers, those who bear the heaviest burden, have been in front of the KS Government for days demanding their rights. The Government says there is money, but they are clearly not giving it. Meanwhile, patients will suffer from fever and other ailments while waiting in line for a doctor at a health center or clinic. The political system is worse than the one used by healthcare, which collapses every now and then, causing chaos in healthcare institutions.

Prime Minister Nihad Uk is also not giving money. Today he tells young people - you will not get another 5,200 KM. Those young people to whom it was promised, and the KS Assembly voted that it must be paid to them because the KS Government screwed them out of that amount. But Prime Minister Uk has no money, because his government and its ministers have opened their wallets in recent months wherever the Three political project has any candidate.

While medics announce a general strike, a general cleanup is underway in the municipalities. Then the relevant ministers and the entourage from the cantonal government come, take candidates by the arm, and admire the asphalt, the painted facade, the sidewalk, and who knows what else.

In Sarajevo Canton, it is worse than in the post-Dayton 1996. True, the railway was renovated, but only the Government in which Adnan Šteta is the Minister of Transport knows how much money they wasted on renovating the railway, which, according to experts, has not yet received permits for use. So, corruption and malign Chinese influence are also present in the government whose godfather is the anti-corruption ambassador Michael Murphy. I would bet that if someone did a quality analysis, it would show that the level of corruption in KS has increased manifold since the Americans sent us the forgotten Larson and established the Office for Combating Corruption.

If it can be concluded from the political moves of the Three at higher levels that they are betraying and selling the country, then based on the work in Sarajevo Canton, they can freely be called a budget apocalypse. For comparison and better insight, the budget of Sarajevo Canton is 1.5 billion KM. This is a larger budget than the state budget, and according to the latest information, the Three have spent it to the extent that salaries for the coming months are questionable.

On top of all that, add that in Sarajevo Canton, whether there is a drought or rain, there is no water. True, mostly at night, but daytime reductions are not uncommon either. That water is of questionable quality, yet they assure us that it is safe to drink.

In Sarajevo Canton, the streets have never been more full of garbage. Disinfection, deratization, and disinsection are almost unknown terms to this government. That's why, along with garbage, we have an infestation of rats and insects, and the public health of the population is endangered.

Those I mentioned at the beginning of the text are now saying, “it wasn’t like this during SDA, this is a disaster, the Three have failed us” and add that they will not go to the polls, disappointed by the fact that they chose a bad political project as hope for a better tomorrow.

However, that is even more dangerous. The fact is that before the Three, there were bad segments and representatives of the government, but it is much worse for all of us that now a significant number of citizens are abstaining from elections, at whatever level they may be.

You have the opportunity to correct a bad choice from the past. Already now, on October 6, you can punish those who have embezzled your hopes, desires, expectations. Staying home means rewarding the SDP, Our Party, and NiP. Because they promised to be different and better, and they proved to be worse.

Therefore, all of you who realize the mistake from the past few election cycles, go to the polls and vote. The offer is wide, and mistakes can be corrected. True, we will still suffer the consequences, but it is high time to stop the budget riders of the apocalypse before we end up in bankruptcy. That would be fatal and difficult to repair.