Vučurević removed from the list: I bother Milorad Dodik!

According to the decision of the Central Election Commission of BiH, the holder of the PDP list for the National Assembly of RS and current mayor of Trebinje, Slavko Vučurević, has been removed from the candidate list and fined 3,000 KM, while the Party of Democratic Progress has been fined 6,000 KM, writes the BiH news agency Patria.

The CEC initiated proceedings against the Alliance for Change based on a submission from SNSD, after offensive slogans against SNSD candidates for the highest positions in Republika Srpska and BiH were chanted during a rally in Trebinje while the current mayor Slavko Vučurević was speaking.

At the Alliance for Change rally in Trebinje, at the invitation of Mayor Slavko Vučurević, chants of "Željka, whore", "Mile, thief", and "Igor, Turk" were heard.

"I am certainly one of those who bother Milorad Dodik, and such a decision is no surprise to me. Making a decision based on fabricated material that RTRS, as a regime media outlet, presented to the Election Commission was absolutely disloyal. If anyone should have been removed from political life due to vulgarity, it should have been Milorad Dodik," Vučurević said at a press conference, adding:

"Who swore at someone's mother publicly on television, who said the most brutal things? That's Milorad Dodik. So, I never called out at a rally in Trebinje, 'Come on, let's chant for Željka,' but the gentlemen made it look that way. I said, do we have the strength and energy, and what someone says in a corner is not important," Vučurević stated and emphasized:

"I did not call out and say, 'You will chant this.' Not for any candidate. I heard all the chants, how could I not hear them if I was there, and what was I supposed to do, shut the mouths of 1,500 people? Who is the one who can do that?" Vučurević asked.

OPEN LETTER TO IGOR RADOJIČIĆ

Incidentally, yesterday, PDP Secretary General Igor Crnadak sent an open letter to high-ranking SNSD official Igor Radojičić, which we are publishing in full:

- Igor, regarding your statement and call to the Central Election Commission of BiH to punish PDP for "vulgar campaigning and hate speech", I must write you this open letter because your hypocrisy has crossed all limits.

I don't have time for all the examples, but here are a few. When Milorad Dodik swore at the mother of the director of BN television and threatened him, you, Igor, remained silent.

When Dodik told voters at rallies that he would "pull out the lights and dig up the asphalt" if they didn't vote for SNSD, you, Igor, remained silent. When Dodik rudely expelled a Beta journalist from a press conference, you, Igor, remained silent.

When he told another journalist that he wished his blood pressure would rise and he would die from it, you, Igor, remained silent. When Dodik told a viewer on a TV program "don't bullshit", you, Igor, remained silent.

When Nikola Špirić, in front of you and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, compared one of the opposition candidates to a pig in the center of Banja Luka, you, Igor, remained silent. When Špirić, at the same rally, mocked another opposition candidate for his short stature, you, Igor, remained silent.

When your friend Mićo Kraljević kidnapped a man, drove him around in the trunk, and held him captive in the basement for 12 days, you, Igor, remained silent. Admittedly, you didn't remain silent afterwards, but you supported that criminal in the local elections in Vlasenica and nominated him for these elections as well.

When Minister Tegeltija, dead drunk, grunted into the camera, insulting the entire Republika Srpska, you, Igor, remained silent.

I have probably skipped a lot, but even this is quite enough to tell you that only a person without any shame or character, after all this, can accuse someone else of vulgarity and hate speech.

If there is one thing that Dodik is not most responsible for, it is the primitivism and vulgarity that have become a model of behavior in Republika Srpska during the SNSD's rule. The people who were considered "decent and cultured Banja Luka intellectuals", like you, my professor Nada Tešanović, Željko Mirjanić, are most responsible for this, and you enthusiastically applauded and legitimized all the filth, rudeness, and primitivism in public life.

Igor, I once thought we shared the same values. Today, I think no one deserves or should live in a society where you and those like you make decisions, Crnadak concluded his letter to his namesake from SNSD.