Representatives of the Coordinating Committee of Serb Organizations in Mostar presented on Thursday their proposal of basic principles of organization of Mostar which, among others, foresees territorial and administrative organization of the city as a unique whole and protection of vital national interests of all three constitutive nations in executive and legislative city authority. Dušan Golo, President of Coordination which gathers all cultural and political organizations of the Serb nation in Mostar, highlighted that the Coordination advocates for organization of Mostar as a one unit of local administration, with stationary administration and unique government and budget.
When it comes to electoral rules, representatives of Serbs believe that the local elections in Mostar must be held at any cost because the current situation is totally unacceptable for the Serb nation.
They propose that minimum and maximum quotas of councilors for all three constitutive nations and caucuses of nations in the City Council are kept, and that all 35 city councilors are elected from one electoral unit.
Moreover, the Coordinative Committee of Serb Organizations believes that, in addition to the protection of vital national interest in the City Council, that principle should also be embedded into the executive authority, i.e. the City Administration of Mostar.
“We propose the introduction of two deputy mayors who would not be from the same nation, and who would be a medium for protection of vital national interest,” said the Coordination member Predrag Šupljeglav, pointing out that this primarily refers to the issue of recruitment in city administration and execution of the city budget.
When asked to comment on other proposals of organization of Mostar that appeared in public in the past several days, Golo said that the proposals of the strongest Bosniak party SDA (Party of Democratic Action) and the strongest Croat party HDZ BiH (Croatian Democratic Union) are not acceptable for the Serb nation because in those proposals both parties demand rights exclusively for their nations.
(Source: klix.ba)
