Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in a very specific situation, it has been brought to a frozen conflict and those who savour our trouble prefer such situation, said Croat candidate for Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, Diana Zelenika.

Speaking for N1, Zelenika said the changes to the peace agreement, which ended the 1992-95 armed conflict in Bosnia, led to the current situation in the country.

“Such changes to the peace agreement were made that they brought us to a frozen conflict, and that’s where I see a kind of a responsibility for the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those who savour our suffering and this ‘struggling’ in the mud prefer such situation. Some prefer we are here where we are and I think by saying this I defined who are they,” Zelenika noted without saying whom she referred to.

She named her main rivals in the run for the Presidency “the tumours” of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“And I’m not sure which one of them is more malignant, because they both are,” Zelenika said noting that current Croat representative in Bosnia’s state presidency, Dragan Covic, is “financially using Bosnia and Herzegovina and creating ruptures that will hardly recover.”

Zeljko Komsic, the Democratic Front (DF) candidate for the same post, has a goal, according to Zelenika, to make rifts between Bosniaks and Croats. His presence in the Presidency would bring “long-term problems between Croats and Bosniaks,” she added.

Diana Zelenika is a candidate nominated by the Croat Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ 1990), a party formed in 2006 after former members of the currently ruling Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) left the party dissatisfied with the way it represented Croat people in Bosnia and formed their own party, the HDZ 1990.

She said she counted on the votes of the poor and the disempowered.

“People live in jeopardy, they live in the empty phrases of the past and they don’t live in the future. I don’t want that to happen to our children,” she added.

According to her, the country currently looks like “a hybrid of Italy and Columbia”, because “mafia rules the country and is making fun of the judiciary.”

The election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina officially starts in less than two weeks but, according to Zelenika, it is already underway.

The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina will cast their vote in the general election taking place on October 7 and will elect members of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, entity presidents and vice presidents, as well as the members of the state, entity and cantonal parliaments.