Neither Bosnia is the Congo, nor is Schmidt Leopold: First the rule of law and democracy in the electoral system, then technology!

By: Rasim Belko

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a democratic state that functions in accordance with the rule of law and democratic elections. This is how the General Framework Agreement for Peace, or the Constitution of BiH, which is an integral part of the said agreement, defines our country.

However, the years after the Dayton Agreement have brought about a complete erosion of the original agreement, which has allowed ethno-political oligarchies to impose a narrative in the public space that the Dayton Agreement is what they say it is, not what is written in the original document, by highlighting their own interpretation as the Agreement.

The first paragraph of this text is actually the original text of the Dayton Constitution, and it defines what Bosnia and Herzegovina should be. And it is not, primarily thanks to the political symbiosis of ethno centers of power and the international community. Because, if the Constitution of BiH had been applied as written, the system in our country would have long been based on the rule of law and democratic elections.

Instead, we have an experiment created somewhere far away, which does not stop, because its creators do not falter in their intention to make Bosnia and Herzegovina a handicapped social community that cannot survive as a state.

In this context, Schmidt's latest warning about the possible imposition of a decision concerning the integrity of elections in BiH, as well as all the media-political lawyers working for Schmidt's cause, should be viewed.

Firstly, electoral integrity does not fall under the jurisdiction of the high representative, so the very foundation on which he plans to impose a decision on this matter is unstable. Because, it is not Schmidt's place to decide on behalf of the citizens of this country how they will vote and how their votes will be counted.

That decision is inevitably in the hands of those elected by the citizens. Pardon, those chosen by Schmidt and US Ambassador Michael Murphy. Because, talking about electoral integrity and the technologies of the electoral process in a country where foreigners impose authorities against the will of the voters is superfluous and completely clearly aggressive.

On the other hand, it is senseless to push and talk about electoral integrity in a country that discriminates against its citizens in both passive and active voting rights depending on their place of residence. This primarily contradicts the European Convention on Human Rights, which is above the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is clear that in such an atmosphere, neither Bosnia and Herzegovina is democratic nor do its elections have integrity, no matter what the international tyrants do.

Because, this is a country that has been ignoring the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for years, which ruled that Bosnia and Herzegovina violates the passive voting rights of a person who wishes to run for the House of Peoples or the Presidency of BiH, because they do not declare themselves as a member of any ethnic group. On the other hand, the conditional, non-final judgment of the ECtHR in the case of Slaven Kovačević confirms that Bosnia and Herzegovina violates his active voting right, because it does not allow him to vote for whomever he wants in the election of the Presidency of BiH, but restricts him to choosing between Bosniaks and Croats, because he lives in the FBiH entity.

Therefore, from the perspective of democracy, elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina are a huge absurdity that has nothing to do with democracy, and therefore it is superfluous to talk about any integrity of that process. If we consider that in the public narrative, according to the Croatian political lexicon, the obligation to amend the Election Law with the inclusion of legitimate representation is being imposed, we get a broader picture of anti-democratic catacombs as the final product of the international community and local ethno-powers.

Considering the overall state of democracy, the rule of law, and electoral rules in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is clear that there is no need for me to repeat previous evidence that what Schmidt is offering us as a way out, pardon, technology under the guise of integrity, has nothing to do with the normal world, which abandoned such technologies as soon as it realized that the masters of Vladimir Putin's hacker chambers and similar could control elections worldwide.

To conclude, let me reiterate that Schmidt, if he is to adhere to Dayton and the discourse on democracy and the rule of law in BiH, must first, with the power that his boss has, compel political leaders to implement the ECtHR judgments into the BiH Constitution, and to introduce extraordinary elections as a key principle of government rotation, which would resolve many of the crises and hardships we have witnessed.

Because, any action contrary to the above concerning the Election Law provides a basis to view Schmidt as King Leopold II, who wants to enslave us, in order to enable the unimpeded exploitation of this country's natural resources by those who sponsor the schemes of his bosses.

And in such a development of the situation, neither Schmidt nor the OHR have anything to do in Bosnia and Herzegovina anymore. Because, their mission is not to turn the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina into slaves. And let this be clear to the Schmidtomaniac megaphones in the media spectrum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is better to fight than to be enslaved, ALWAYS HAS BEEN!