The "Trojka" is running out of time to waste our lives, they have led us to digging trenches, and now they hypocritically seek advice from citizens

Written for NAP by: Muamer Bandić, member of the SBiH Presidency and representative in the HoR of the PS of BiH

When we talk about society, we most often discuss its resources, and the most important resource for social development and progress is people. It is people who manage all other resources and put them in the service of development with their skill and ability. After all, without people, there is no society.

Our society is losing and wasting this most important resource and development potential at a rapid pace. And it is being wasted because no one wants to waste time here listening to the same old lies and nonsense. And here we come to a resource that is invisible, yet omnipresent and most important to us humans, and that is time.

Time is the only resource we cannot get back, nor even buy! And as the watchmaker Sead says in a cult sentence: "As long as there are people, time will be measured." Just as in life, so in politics, time is the measure of all things. And behind us is a time that has been consumed by lies and petty gossip, just so that one interest group could seize power, even at the cost of destroying the state, about which their "reformed" and "new partner" Milorad Dodik openly speaks today.

If we turn and look back, we will not find or see any achievements, any praiseworthy success, and not a single completed project that will make us better off today or tomorrow, neither in the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, nor in the Federation of BiH, nor in the Canton of Sarajevo, nor in any of the municipalities ruled by the "Trojka" for years. Today, these sellers of fog are not telling us about those billions of euros that were supposedly waiting for us around the corner, because they seem to be only for the genetically selected and seem to be waiting in Dubai, not in Brussels.

Today, these false Valters, in the absence of European fog to sell to the naive poor, have decided to ask citizens what policies they should pursue! It's as if they fell from Mars, not that they have been sovereignly ruling the Canton of Sarajevo and the city municipalities in recent years. We all have the right to ask ourselves what kind of policies should be pursued here if the current government doesn't know?

It is truly a genuine socio-political peculiarity that we in Sarajevo have a government that openly and without any shame says it doesn't know what to do, but would gladly rule and spend a few more years of our lives posing for photos on social media in various world destinations at the state's expense.

Even more cynical are the "Trojka's" advertisements on social media, made in the famous Podrinje passive voice "it should be," that Sarajevo municipalities need more greenery, more facilities for children, for sports and culture, and more urban facilities, and these same people have been ruling these municipalities for years. It is obvious that they consider the citizens of Sarajevo to be goldfish who easily forget all this time, which they have wasted in vain in their mutual squabbles over a few marks from the budget, between these advertising lines of empty promises and hollow talk.

Behind us are wasted years in which nothing was done in accordance with the law. The state has never been weaker, the Federation of BiH more shattered, the Canton of Sarajevo poorer, the city municipalities more neglected, and Bosniaks as a people never weaker and more lost, and all because of the personal ambitions of a handful of politically underqualified individuals, failures in their professional careers, who are today healing their life frustrations at our expense and on the backs of the citizens of Sarajevo.

It truly took being politically blind or a complete naive, or a worse fool, not to see who, what, and what political goals the "angels" of the "Trojka," Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović, have, and to even consider that any positive, let alone European, story can be built with such fascists! In the end, all this has led us to the point where we realistically ask ourselves if we will be digging trenches tomorrow and if our children will be mobilized? And the arrogant and lost government offers us no solutions, only new self-promotional works and lies.

Now that Dodik is raging the most, because they have given him that space, it is the right time for citizens to ask this imposed government where is their Europe today and where are those billions? And we are very quickly coming to the crucial moment - the local elections, when citizens inevitably ask themselves what they think and how they see their future. I sincerely hope that everyone is aware of the real danger of the times we live in and that they will not allow these same sellers of fog, manipulators, and bluffers, Dodik's and Čović's yes-men, to consume a few more years of our lives in vain.