Nikšić must go, by resignation or street pressure!

By: Rasim Belko

As the days pass, the muddy trail on which the imposed Prime Minister of the Federation and President of the SDP, Nermin Nikšić, limps becomes clearer. From the first messages published on the portal Istraga.ba, which reek of crime, to the complete silence of institutions that, in any normal country, would already be on their feet. But we are not a normal country, we are Bosnia and Herzegovina, where corruption does not sleep, but has working hours and a state seal.

The "spengavanje" affair is not just Nikšić's shame, it is an X-ray of a disintegrating state. When the judiciary pretends not to see, when the police write messages instead of reports, and when the prime minister explains that favoritism towards officials, party colleagues, and other friends is not corruption but "the fight against it," then it is clear that we live in a parody of a state.

Dino Merlin sang "Everything is a lie" long ago, and he was right. The biggest lie is the one we have been living for years, and it comes precisely from the Trojka, that insane political alliance which, under the guise of European reformers, delivered the worst form of domestic colonialism to the people. We are so close to the EU that our head of diplomacy is in Europol's notes due to connections with a supercartel, and the lower echelons of the Trojka fill the crime sections.

The "spengavanje" affair has exposed everything – Nikšić, FUP, the judiciary, and even those "independent" voices that have suddenly fallen silent. Suddenly, nobody knows anything. There is no reaction from the OHR, nor from the embassies that put this government in place. Silence is obviously more pleasant for them than the truth. Because when you are the one who appointed Nikšić, every affair is also yours.

And then let's look at Aida Hadžialić – a woman from BiH who resigned and withdrew from politics in Sweden due to 0.2 per mille of alcohol. In an organized system. In our country, Nikšić laughs in our faces – as if we are idiots to whom he can sell the story that he is fighting corruption and saving the country.

If it weren't tragic, it would be hilarious. But it's not hilarious – it's devastating.

Because we, the people of this country, have been swallowing the same story for years, "there is no alternative," "this is better than SDA." And here, we have received "this," a government that is not only compromised but completely devoid of morals, honor, and shame.

Embassies are silent because their favorites are in power, the NGO sector is silent because it doesn't know which pocket to bite, and citizens are silent because they are tired of the illusion that anything can change. And it is precisely this silence that Nikšić and his cronies are counting on to save them.

But they won't.

This government does not deserve criticism – it deserves resistance.

Not partial, not symbolic, but real, loud, and on the streets. Because Nikšić and his company have crossed every boundary, every line of law, and every minimum of morality. When a prime minister caught in a web of corruption, manipulation, and lies remains in his chair thanks to the silence of his protectors, then Nikšić is no longer the problem – we are the problem.

Yes, we are.

We who watch everything, comment, shrug our shoulders, and move on.

We who have accepted being lied to, being laughed at, being ruled by those we did not elect.

We who have agreed to the country being an experiment in which the government are corrupt lab rats, and the people are the control group that endures.

Resignation? Yes, but he won't give it.

The street? It must take it.

Because as long as we wait for embassies, the OHR, or foreigners to solve what is our job, Nikšić and those like him will calmly ruin this country until only another file in the archive of failed states remains.

It's time to stop being patients in someone else's experiment. It's time for Bosnia and Herzegovina to become a state again, not a mockery. And that will not come from Brussels, nor from Washington, but from the street. It's up to us!

Resignation or the street. There is no third option.