What is certain, regarding the General Elections of 2022, is that the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), headed by Milorad Dodik, is the convincing electoral winner at all levels. In truth, the situation for the president of the Republika Srpska (RS) still remains to be clarified.
Zeljka Cvijanovic is a new member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from the Serbian people and comes from SNSD. 327,000 citizens voted for her, even though she is under the sanctions of Great Britain and follows in the footsteps herleader Milorad Dodik, whose name is on the American blacklist in addition to the British one, and is a proven Russian pawn in Europe. Cvijanovic advocates primarily for the interests of the entity and has already announced that she will lead such a policy in the Presidency of BiH.
According to the still unconfirmed results, more than 290 thousand citizens voted for Milorad Dodik as president of the RS entity. Whether his result was due to electoral fraud or not will soon be confirmed, but the fact is that he enjoys enormous support. At the same time, it should be recognized that Jelena Trivic managed to shake Dodik’s candidacy in these elections.
In the race for the National Assembly of the RS (NARS), SNSD also “swept” the competition and secured 29 mandates, which is 221,554 votes or 34.63 percent. With coalition partners, there will be 53 deputies.
Behind the SNSD is the opposition SDS with only 95,648 votes and the PDP with 65,872 votes. This speaks of the power of trust when it comes to people’s support for a policy led by a pro-Russian politician in BiH.
SNSD also won a convincing victory for the state level of government when it comes to the constituency of RS.
Thus, this party will have six of its representatives in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament, and it will add one representative each from Demos and United Srpska to its caucus, which will make eight safe hands for the implementation of SNSD’s political interests. When they want, they will block state institutions again, and all the time they will live very well at the expense of the state budget.
This will also secure at least three SNSD delegates in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliament, and as we know, negotiations are underway for this party to take the fourth. This makes them indispensable when making decisions.
When the line is drawn, it is truly unimaginable that someone could expel a political party with this kind of electoral capacity from forming a government.
What is particularly saddening is the fact that a party that openly works to undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement, destabilizes BiH and the entire region, supports Moscow during the Russian aggression against Ukraine, politically oppresses other peoples in the RS entity, denies the genocide in Srebrenica and other war crimes, glorifies convicted war criminals, blocking institutions and blocking NATO’s path of our country, is only getting stronger, and the opposition forces have not had an effective response to the moves being made from the headquarters at Kralj Petar II Karadjordjevic Street 15 for years.
We should also not forget the numerous corruption scandals for which high-ranking members of the SNSD are accused, but even that obviously does not overly bother the electorate.
If it is taken into account that Milorad Dodik (SNSD) and Dragan Covic (HDZ) have already agreed on cooperation and that they will “follow each other”, as Dodik said, then the pro-Bosnian forces can expect a very difficult task in the process of forming the government, that is, various political grades and even blockades, and BiH will experience new challenging times, Klix.ba reports.
E.Dz.
