After the first democratic general election in Bosnia, where I ran for Bosnian Presidency as a Yugoslav, I said nationalist parties who won the election will rule for 600 years, but now I predict that this situation will have to end, it can't go on like this, a renown Bosnian actor and a theatre legend Josip Pejakovic told N1's Amir Zukic during the Wednesday interview.
“Every disease has its end. You either die or you live, but you can't continue suffering. At one point, this will have to blow up, it has to,” Said Pejakovic who underwent 17 major surgeries recently fighting for his life, but thanks to local and international medical experts he survived the ordeal and is now recuperating.
Asked to comment on the information that there are currently more Bosnians living abroad than in the country, Pejakovic said the authorities are afraid of formally publishing that information.
“They're afraid to publish the census as well. They won't publish the census to show the situation in Sarajevo. I hereby claim that there are less than 80,000 pre-war Sarajevans living in Sarajevo and of that number, 50 percent are pensioners who are here to die,” Pejakovic said.
But the famous actor is not pessimistic. On the contrary, he claims to be very optimistic.
He also claims that he is friends with some of Bosnia's major political actors like the Centre-Left Democratic Front (DF) leader Zeljko Komsic, Centre-Right Democratic Action Party (SDA) leader and leader of the Bosniak people Bakir Izetbegovic as well as the controversial Serb leader and leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) Milorad Dodik – for whom he said is not what he presents himself in public.
Dodik once told him that he loves the Bosnia and Herzegovina as portrayed in one of Pejakovic's famous monologues called In the Name of the People.
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Asked about the most recent mini-crisis in the country made after the main Bosniak party – the SDA adopted a programme declaration saying that their future vision of the country is the one without its two entities, the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation and the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, under the name of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pejakovic said that the dream of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is as possible as Dodik's talk of the RS’ secession from Bosnia and its annexation to Serbia.
“None of those options are possible. There must be a third possibility, where people will want to come back and die here,” Pejakovic concluded.
