After the city councilors of Mostar did not adopt the decision that only the symbols of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the city of Mostar can be displayed in public institutions, without religious and national symbols, which caused a storm of reactions in the public, the citizens of Mostar were asked what they thought about it.
Absolutely all citizens, who were asked yesterday at the Spanish Square in the center of Mostar, gave a unique answer that state institutions and institutions should only have the features of the state of BiH and the city of Mostar.
Moreover, all of them are of the same opinion that religious and national features have no place in state institutions and that there are appropriate places where such symbols can and should be displayed.
”These things should not be connected together, because the state is the state, and religion is religion. We all have our personal choice in private life, but state and public life is something completely different, and I think that as a secularized state it should remain that way,” said one of the citizens of Mostar.
His fellow citizen points out that when it comes to the city, it is clear what the features should be.
”I don’t underestimate anything, neither mosques nor churches, but when it comes to the city, it is known what the symbols are,”she stated, adding that this decision would have been adopted a long time ago if the citizens had a say.
”I believe that there should only be state features, and the decision of the city council was expected,” says a young Mostar citizen, stating that he does not believe that the problem in Mostar will be solved soon.
Furthermore, his fellow citizen, who also believes that state institutions should only have the features of the state of BiH, says that no one even expected that this decision would be made.
One Mostar resident is convinced that the talk about features and symbols is only part of political games, and he believes that it is absurd to allow religious and national features and symbols to be displayed in state institutions.
”They should be state features, as they were before without any iconography because the public institutions in the City of Mostar are the state administration. But politics is politics, they did a lot of unusual things,” stated one of the citizens of Mostar adding that it is ungrateful to comment on the illogicalities made by the people who sit in the city government. With similar statements, a large number of citizens of Mostar did not even want to comment on this topic, Klix.ba reports.
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