The 'Trojka' has already lost the match with Dodik!

By: Muamer Bandić, MP of the Party of BiH in the KS Assembly

For the first time in the last 80 years, a level of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina has dared to ban the celebration of the BiH Statehood Day. Such a decision was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the smaller BiH entity. Besides banning the celebration in Banja Luka, they did the same in Mrkonjić Grad, a place where the first session of ZAVNOBiH was held in 1943, laying the foundations of our country's modern statehood.

At the same time, believe it or not, one man was dismissed for participating in the preparations for the celebration of Statehood Day in his own country. As paradoxical as it sounds, that is exactly what happened. This refers to the Deputy Mayor of Srebrenica Municipality, Hamdija Fejzić.

Fejzić's dismissal clearly shows that this is a coordinated action by Trojka's coalition partners, aimed at killing the little statehood that remains. It is possible that tomorrow our overly smart and overly honest politicians will explain this latest act of Chetnik-fascist rampage as European values that await us around the corner, and all we have to do is accept them with a smile.

I wonder now, on what principles was this kleptomaniacal coalition established, and is this symbolic killing of our state part of that coalition agreement, which the Trojka members are loudly praising and talking about? At one time, the Party of BiH proposed forming a government at the state level with the opposition from the smaller BiH entity, not with Milorad Dodik's SNSD, because we clearly knew who we were dealing with.

Our proposal was flatly rejected, and Trojka entered this insane coalition through Vojin Mijatović, Dodik's lackey and business partner, who undermined the votes of Bosniak returnees in Republika Srpska in the last elections and secured a fourth delegate for SNSD in the House of Peoples of BiH, and in return was rewarded with a ministerial position at the federal level. The Trojka members at the time claimed that this was about a new, enlightened, reformed Dodik, but as we witness day after day – a wolf changes its fur, but never its nature.

Some will say that when it comes to the smaller BiH entity, both the opposition and the ruling parties have the same ideology. Perhaps that is so, but the truth is that nothing like this has ever happened before, nor have opposition parties followed this destructive path that Milorad Dodik's SNSD is taking.

What else we will witness with this position-seeking and kleptomaniacal coalition until the next elections, only God knows!? I would not be surprised at all if retrograde forces exploit the inexperience, ignorance, and political immaturity of the Sarajevo dilettantes to the maximum and bring them to their knees by the end of their term.

It is already clear to me that the political amateurism I am witnessing is almost on par with open treason against this country, and I would not be surprised at all if Milorad Dodik proceeds with open secession and division of the country, given the vast and undefended space left to him. And we all know where that leads.

What surprises me most is that these “our” politicians, otherwise “excellent” sportsmen, seem to have forgotten the basics of modern team sports, which is to play mostly without the ball to occupy space and thus block the opponent. In that regard, they have definitely, and I hope not irrevocably, lost this match, or rather, the pro-state space, without even breaking a sweat.

Currently, all that is left for them is to publicly feign a “dispute” with their reborn coalition partner, because they have already served him everything else on a silver platter. It would be interesting to hear from them now what they think, has Mile really changed and become Europeanized, or have ministerial positions simply clouded their vision and judgment?