Three major candidates for the Bosnian Presidency member from the Bosniak people condemned the Republika Srpska (RS) entity President’s statement that the “RS and Serbia will be a single space.” He reiterated this statement during the marking of the military-police operation “Storm” (1995) in Croatia.
Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate Denis Becirovic said that Serbia’s support for RS President Milorad Dodik’s separatist ideas is a dangerous adventure for Serbia and the Balkans. He said that Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic is directly supporting Dodik and his ideas.
“By sharing Dodik’s claims on his twitter account, where Dodik described the meeting between him and Vucic as ‘cooperation between the two fraternal states,’ Vucic caused a serious international incident. By publicly supporting Dodik’s secessionist ideas Vicuc showed that he is a wolf in sheep's clothing,” Becirovic added.
Democratic Action Party’s (SDA) candidate Sefik Dzaferovic told Bosnia’s Presidency member Mladen Ivanic and Milorad Dodik that Bosnia will never be a “Serb space.”
“No one will ever kill and persecute Bosniaks from their homelandin order to achieve some nationalist and sick ideas of ethnically cleansed areas in Bosnia. Banjaluka, Zvornik and Prijedor are not Serb towns, just like Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla are not Bosniak towns. Those are all Bosnian towns,” Dzaferovic stressed. “Every inch of this country belongs to every Bosnian citizen, regardless of their ethnicity or religion.”
Head of the Alliance for Better Future (SBB) and the party’s Presidency candidate Fahrudin Radoncic said Dodik “is an irrelevant character for redrawing of borders.”
“Knowing the fact that he is on the US Blacklist and that international factors don’t support his ideas at all, Dodik is truly an irrelevant character for the redrawing of borders. We, the Bosnian patriots, would never allow it. In fact, if Dodik was serious about his non-recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, why doesn’t he withdraw his Presidency candidacy?,” Radoncic asked. “He won’t do that, of course, because the story of ‘secession’ and ‘accession’ is supposed to bring him victory.”
