Sattler put the Election Law back on the table thus helping the secession of RS

Amina Čorbo Zećo

After several months of deep sleep, it seems that the head of the EU Delegation to BiH, Johann Sattler, finally woke up and came to Mostar to receive an award from the local HDZ and SDA's Salem Marić for successfully stolen elections by these parties.

The head of the EU Delegation to BiH did not appear in public for a long time, instead he was squatting in the EU Delegation office building, keeping silent about everything he could.

Sattler was inter alia silent on the fact that EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi and Milorad Dodik arranged a special session of the Republika Srpska National Assembly to adopt conclusions that undermine Bosnia and Herzegovina's constitutional order, which if implemented, could lead this country to conflict. Sattler had nothing to say about that, so the officials of the EU Delegation to BiH were forced to make clumsy statements in which they tried to justify Varhelyi.

The head of the EU Delegation, Johann Sattler, not once did clearly refer to Dodik's undermining of the state, nor to the sanctions that the United States expanded on Dodik. Likewise, he did not dare to state his position on possible EU sanctions.

If he were in favor of that kind of sanctions, Sattler would certainly speak out. However, as he is an integral part of the Orban-Putin coalition, which has extremely ill intentions towards BiH, Sattler has been silent. And he will remain so.

Officially, the head of the EU Delegation did not utter a word about the celebration of the unconstitutional day of the RS, he only shared the EU official position via Twitter, but he personally did not speak about the accompanying fascist messages sent by Dodik and his regime, while almost the whole world condemns the utmost savagery.

Sattler was silent just as he was silent when HDZ BiH and Dragan Čović supported Dodik's genocidal policy in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly and opposed the law banning genocide denial.

However, Sattler finally woke up, and here comes the head of the EU Delegation to Mostar, on the eve of another arrival, that of the US Special Envoy for Electoral Reform in BiH Mathew Palmer and his EU counterpart Angelina Eicchorst.

Sattler said earlier today in Mostar that the city is an example to everyone of what can be achieved if there is political will and cooperation with key partners, and the main partners for BiH, Sattler stressed, are the EU and the USA.

'We are now trying to do something similar in the field of reforming the electoral legislation and the BiH Constitution', Sattler said in Mostar, noting that political will is exactly what is gravely lacking today to work for the benefit of BiH and its citizens.

However, Sattler's political will to change the election law, not the Constitution (that is why Sattler, contrary to the letter of the US Secretary of State and the Strasbourg court's judgements, puts the election law first, and the Constitution second) has existed for a long time.

As we have written before, it was expressed through several months of secretive communication with the leaders of HDZ and SBB Dragan Čović and Fahrudin Radončić, regarding how and in what way to 'sell' changes to the election law in Sarajevo that will satisfy all appetites of the HDZ BiH, and consequently the appetites of Russia, because only then such solutions would ease the secessionist position of Milorad Dodik.

The head of the EU Delegation to BiH went so far as to reassure Matthew Palmer about how the whole thing was settled and agreed, so when it turned out that the resistance of the pro-Bosnian public towards the ethnic division of BiH through changes to the Election Law was far tougher than expected, the head of the EU Delegation had to explain to American friends the reasons for the failure.

Despite that, it seems that Sattler is not giving up on finally proving his pro-Russian reputation by agreeing on a solution that would further deepen ethnic divisions in BiH.

The present moment, when this country is on the brink of conflict and when Milorad Dodik enters the barracks of the BiH Armed Forces in the RS  greeted with the war-mongering song 'March on the Drina', is perhaps the most suitable for putting additional pressure on pro-Bosnian forces. Because it does not matter that the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is threatened by secession and conflicts, what matters in the opinion of Sattler and the like, is to achieve this in a peaceful way. For example, through changes to the Election Law at Čović's request. Russia will be pleased as well as all the fascists in Bosnia and Herzegovina.