What Hadžiomerović and Suljagić are arguing about on Facebook

Bakir Hadžiomerović, the SDP's candidate for the Bosniak member of the Presidency of BiH, commented last night on his Facebook profile on the government led by Bakir Izetbegović and Željko Komšić.

Using the now popular method of communication via social networks, Emir Suljagić, a member of the Presidency of the Democratic Front, responded to him on his FB profile, reports the Patria news agency.

We are publishing both comments in full:

Emir Suljagić

There are people among us who like to believe that history begins when they decide it begins. One of them is my (former) friend Bakir Hadžiomerović.

Since I have less and less patience for such people and their collective habit of climbing the nearest hill and wagging their fingers, lecturing us all on morality, below is the most important part of the text of the statement signed by the then SDP president, Zlatko Lagumdžija, de facto delivering the third entity in the process of implementing the Sejdić-Finci ruling.

The statement was signed in Brussels on October 1, 2013, and represents a capitulation of the values on which Bosnian society is based, namely turning peoples into electoral units:

“We agree that by October 10, we will agree on electoral models that will satisfy the legitimate demands of the constituent peoples and others with full respect for international standards. The model for electing two members of the Presidency of BiH from the FBiH through amendments to the Constitution and the Election Law, with the addition of the decision of the Court in Strasbourg, should prevent the imposition of election results on any constituent people or others.”

Therefore, there is no way that naked pragmatism can be spun as a fight for values. Multi-ethnicity is one thing, and electoral engineering, as Bakir Hadžiomerović had the opportunity to learn firsthand, is something else entirely.

Bakir Hadžiomerović

"Since October 12 last year, we have heard all sorts of nonsense, but no wonder was equal to the one when Bakir Izetbegović and Željko Komšić, as, indeed, undisputed election winners, announced the formation of a government that, as is customary, the leaders of the DF and SDA assured us, would be based on three lists of paper priorities signed together with SDS's Movement for Change and HDZ's Dragan Čović.

But the Hijri New Year, one Christmas, New Year, another Christmas, and the Serbian New Year have passed since then, and even the session of the House of Peoples of the federal parliament is passing, and even the first round of the World Handball Championship in Qatar is underway, and there is still no sign of the announced new government of election winners embodied by Izetbegović, Komšić, and Čović...

It got stuck, they say, at the Vice President of the FBiH from the Serb people, or, to be more precise, the election winners from the DF, SDA, and HDZ do not have the electoral capacity to form a government in the House of Peoples of the FBiH, from which the Presidency of the FBiH is elected, which then elects the Government of the FBiH...?

Allegedly, in those agreements signed by Komšić and Izetbegović in the company of Cicko Bjelica – once the most loyal accomplice in hiding war criminal Radovan Karadžić – it was agreed and confirmed that the DF would have a Vice President of the FBiH from the Serb people.

That is fair, after all, the DF is a multi-party organization, unlike the SDA and HDZ, which, for twenty-five years now, have been the Bosniak and Croatian representatives of the constituent peoples in our homeland, respectively.

As things stand now, the coalition with Cicko Bjelica as a witness lacks about four or five Serbs in the federal House of Peoples to form a government. The SDA, as expected, in line with the latest election results, has zero Serb delegates, the HDZ achieved an outstanding identical zero result, so it was believed that Komšić's multi-ethnic DF would resolve the minor issue with Serb delegates in the House of Peoples of the FBiH.

However, this multi-ethnic-constituent front, out of thirteen elected Serb delegates in the House of Peoples of the FBiH, possesses only one delegate who somehow ended up in the unfortunate House as an undeniable multi-ethnic electoral asset. Komšić's party, in this regard, is on par with the Liberal Party and the People's Party Work for Betterment, which, presumably, according to the DF's criteria from the end of last year, should mean that these two lost parties are also election winners, just like Komšić's DF...

For the appointment of the Vice President of the FBiH from the Serb people, the reform coalition with Cicko Bjelica as a witness needs, as we said, five votes compared to the one existing Serb vote in the Serb club of the federal House of Peoples. The SDP, the undisputed loser of the last elections, has once again proven that it is actually the only truly multi-ethnic party in BiH, which is why the SDP, despite the electoral debacle, received six Serb delegates in the House of Peoples.

For Komšić (with one Serb delegate) and Izetbegović (with zero delegates), the formation of a government is also complicated by the fact that the current leadership of the SDP is bound by a conclusion adopted at the last Extraordinary Congress of the party, according to which the SDP must be in opposition for the next four years and not interfere in the formation of government and similar matters. If the SDP, after all, decides to help the so-called reformers form a government, then the SDP deserves to disappear from the political scene forever, along with those runaways who have been joining Komšić's wing from the SDP in recent months.

But let's forget the losing-opposition SDP and its six Serb delegates in the Serb club of the House of Peoples of the FBiH for now, and return to the remaining seven elected delegates who represent a serious electoral capacity of the new reformist Izetbegović-Komšić-Čović coalition.

Here is a free suggestion for the new reformist coalition of Željko Komšić, Bakir Izetbegović, and Dragan Čović – knock on the doors of the Liberals, Lijanović, and Milorad Dodik (who has two or three delegates you need in the Serb club of the House of Peoples of the FBiH) and nicely, in accordance with earlier announcements, form your reform government... Or announce that you do not have the capacity to form a federal government. And admit that the DF is not actually multi-ethnic, but a front created in the SDA's political kitchen...

And until you form a reform government, here is one that we all know.."