Rejoice, thieves, from Tuesday you'll be rigging elections by law!

By Rasim Belko @rasimbelko

Support for Mr. Schmidt! Thank you, High Representative... A correct move by the High Representative to ensure citizens are chosen by voters, not counters…. One could endlessly list the political entities that, as if let off the leash, started racing to thank and support Christian Schmidt.

It is easier to track whose expressions of gratitude we have not seen and whose are absolutely contrary to Schmidt's imposition. When we talk about the pro-Bosniak political corps from the group of parliamentary parties, only the People's European Party has not run into offside with thanks to Schmidt.

As expected, the reaction from the Republika Srpska entity is the most turbulent, with Milorad Dodik and the rest of the regime announcing the adoption of the entity's election law, and classifying Schmidt's actions to some extent as terrorism. Dragan Čović, supported by EU diplomats, did not react any less turbulently.


However, after reading what the German tourist under the American flag has reformulated (amendments is a stronger term) in the BiH Election Law, it is clear that Christian Schmidt is an ordinary showman who needs to entertain the political stagnation of Sarajevo with the story that no one will be rigging elections on the tram anymore, because the High Representative has decided to remove the handles that passengers hold onto.

And those who have rigged the most in elections in the decades past were the fastest and loudest in thanking the thrower of false flames, who has now, instead of them, shouted "stop the thief" and, on top of that, passed a law under which rigging will become an art of unbearable lightness.

In translation, let's rejoice, thieves, from Tuesday we will be rigging votes by law. And by the law imposed by Prince Schmidt. Because what Schmidt imposed will introduce additional confusion and controversy, and the local elections in October will very quickly show that the imposed solution is not a lifesaver, on the contrary, that it is bad and probably unworkable. This is confirmed by the fact that even the Central Election Commission itself is not clear what the German tourist has imposed, so they told the public to wait for their reaction.

But, while the experts from the CEC do not want to comment on what they have not yet analyzed, here comes the rigger with ready-made messages and wise speeches in which they thank Schmidt for "putting an end to election manipulations." It is interesting and somewhat chilling that the SDP, Our Party, and People and Justice acted the same as SDA, DF, and the president of the Party of BiH. Everyone praised Schmidt's imposition, at a time when they could not even honestly analyze the imposition, let alone read that what the imposed High Representative imposed in a country ruled by imposed government is good!

Given the multitude of these impositions, the question arises - who was stealing?

And the answer is simpler than the fact that the sun rose this morning - everyone was stealing, SDA, Trojka, SNSD, HDZ… but Schmidt was also stealing, and now he is imposing a law that says you can't steal. Can you imagine!

If we are to speak honestly and correctly, in the 2022 election cycle, Christian Schmidt stole the most. He stole the political will of the Bosniak people, and he refused to help verify if the political will of the citizens in Republika Srpska was stolen.

By stealing the electoral will of the Bosniak people, Schmidt long ago said everything about himself and showed that he is not interested in democracy, in which he fundamentally does not differ from those who expelled democracy long ago. And when the suspicion in Republika Srpska grew to a level where serious people began to say that Dodik had stolen the elections, Schmidt attacked the opposition, accusing them of wanting to remove Dodik, thereby definitively giving Dodik a free hand.

And that Schmidt, under Murphy's flag, today, to the delight of Trojka and their "partners" from the opposition, tells us fairy tales about how he will solve the issue of election theft with his imposition. And elections have been rigged since elections existed, they are rigged in America, Europe, they are rigged wherever people have the opportunity to choose between integrity and zeros on checks.

Ultimately, Schmidt's imposed law does not guarantee the elimination of the possibility of election theft in any way. The fact that he imposed that the CEC selects polling station committees and that they will be more professional are not mechanisms for protecting the confidentiality and correctness of the electoral process, but rather the possibility that these committees will be used for the political interests of Murphy's and Schmidt's favorites.

In summary, it is clear and will become clearer every day that Schmidt's imposition on the election legislation is just a cover behind which some new impositions and moves will come to fulfill the wishes of those in whose interest Schmidt stole the elections.

That is why the reaction of most from the pro-Bosnian political pot, who rushed to flatter Schmidt, is absurd and largely suicidal, unaware that he has set a trap for them.

Rejoice, thieves, at least as long as you have a country in which you can steal!