Drasko Stanivukovic, the new Mayor of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia’s Serb-majority region Republika Srpska, has as he previously promised gone to his first day at work using public transportation in his home city.

“It feels good to start the first day at work on a bus ride along with my fellow citizens,” Stanivukovic published on his Facebook together with a photo on his daily commute.

He stressed that he will keep advocating the policies he was promising prior to his election.

“Our policy is to make public transportation more quality, accessible for every pensioner and elementary school student. We know very well what we have been speaking before the election, and I am starting my first day at work with that, because we are going to do so. I will use every opportunity to hear the needs of citizens, as I am doing today,” said the new mayor.

Speaking to N1 soon after his election, Stanivukovic said Banja Luka belonged to all people and everyone was welcome there.

He won against his main rival Igor Radojicic of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), which has previously ruled the city for over two decades.