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00:00:24Good day, dear viewers, somewhat strange news headlines
00:00:28on the portals today, a candidate for... a representative in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary
00:00:31Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested for drug possession,
00:00:34an ambassador and consul caught in the company of individuals from
00:00:38criminal structures, everywhere in the world mafia clans
00:00:41clash on the streets, only with us, it seems, in elections. Day
00:00:45Live for August 26th begins, stay tuned to ani one for the next hour and a
00:00:48half.
00:00:51The electoral law, the position of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, relations within
00:00:55the so-called Croatian five, but also a polemic with Slaven Kovačević.
00:00:59These are some of the things that have marked the political scene in recent weeks
00:01:03and are associated with his name. We ask him,
00:01:05push those individuals in various can an agreement on electoral reform be reached after the elections and what political
00:01:08realignments await us in the next period? Guest of Day Live,
00:01:12President of HDZ 1990. Delegate in
00:01:15the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ilija
00:01:18Cvitanović.
00:01:22The crisis of power in the Una-Sana Canton has opened up numerous questions
00:01:25of constitutional procedures, stability of institutions and the functioning
00:01:29of power. After the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Federation of BiH, which temporarily
00:01:32halted decisions on the removal of the Una-Sana Canton government, the political
00:01:36conflict entered a new phase. What follows after the court
00:01:39decision, how much the crisis has affected the work of institutions and what consequences
00:01:43it leaves on citizens, Day Live features the Prime Minister of the Una-Sana Canton
00:01:47Mustafa
00:01:47Rušnić.
00:01:51The war in Ukraine, the crisis in the Middle East, the development of drones and the growing demand for
00:01:55military industry products have once again brought to the fore the question of technological
00:01:59and production readiness of countries worldwide, can Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:02:03utilize its own potential in the defense industry, where are the
00:02:06limits of domestic drone production and what security
00:02:10consequences can current global conflicts have? We discuss this today
00:02:13with military expert Berko Zečević.
00:02:17Call me even when you're not there
00:02:21you're always there, no that's what a mother
00:02:24is called.
00:02:27The regional festival "Pearls of the Adriatic" this year gathered the most prominent musical names
00:02:30of the region, and the main awards ended up in the hands of David Mara Mile
00:02:34Nikić and Mahir Mulalić. We will talk about the winning songs, emotions
00:02:38after the won awards, audience reactions, but also plans for
00:02:42the continuation of their careers with this year's laureates of one of
00:02:45the most significant regional music
00:02:47festivals.
00:02:51So these are roughly our topics and guests on Day Live this
00:02:55Wednesday.
00:03:03And here are the most important headlines on the portal n1info.Ba at this
00:03:06moment. Our recommendation to you is to find the most important news at that
00:03:10address. Um, from the cabin to military
00:03:13exercises with Eufor soldiers, our team spent a day above Bosnia and
00:03:17Herzegovina. What they recorded, you can find on our portal. Known
00:03:21names for the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and
00:03:24Herzegovina from the Republic of Srpska on the lists in electoral
00:03:27unit 2. Mayors, ministers, directors. and many other
00:03:30names, so candidates, Ronaldo furious due to substitution, clashed with
00:03:34Al Nassr coach, without him made a big
00:03:38comeback. Police investigating fires in Trebinje, firefighters say, those who start
00:03:41fires should be sanctioned. An employee of the BiH court
00:03:45pleaded not guilty, he is accused of illegally appropriating
00:03:48196,729
00:03:51convertible marks. Trump about the Iranian supreme leader says: "I don't
00:03:55think he's dead, but he's very badly wounded", one of the topics
00:03:58highlighted on... the pages of the portal dedicated
00:04:02to world news,
00:04:19President of HDZ 1990, delegate in
00:04:21the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ilija Civitanović, our
00:04:25first guest today, from demands for amendments to the electoral law through
00:04:29reactions to the resolution of the Croatian Parliament on the position of Croats in BiH, all the way to
00:04:33a fierce polemic with Slaven Kovačević and the criminal complaint that
00:04:36followed his statements about the verdict in the Prlić case and
00:04:40other topics that we will discuss in the coming minutes. Good day and
00:04:44welcome. Good day and thank you for the invitation. There have been many reactions these
00:04:47days, or rather for several months, how good it is that
00:04:51HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina finally got serious
00:04:54competition, but on the other hand, there are also remarks that
00:04:57the "five" is perhaps even
00:05:00more right-wing than Čović's HDZ,
00:05:03how do you comment on that? Well, I don't know what's right-wing, it's not hard to be
00:05:07more right-wing than Čović's HDZ, so the "five"
00:05:10is a group of political parties
00:05:12that come from the Croatian corpus, center-right
00:05:16with very clear state-building views when it comes to
00:05:19Bosnia and Herzegovina with very clear views on
00:05:23the organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the equality of constituent peoples,
00:05:26preserving our history, our
00:05:30heritage, what we are in essence in Bosnia and
00:05:33Herzegovina, three constituent peoples with different
00:05:36faiths, not wishing ill of anyone, we are
00:05:40inclusive, not against
00:05:42anyone, if that's right-wing, then we are right-wing, so, in my opinion, we are
00:05:46a political center-right that preserves our
00:05:49tradition, that preserves our customs, what the Croatian people
00:05:52have cherished and lived for centuries in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:05:56state-building, I think that is the correct political path and
00:06:00political direction, when you draw the line, what is the fundamental
00:06:03difference between HDZ BiH and this
00:06:07"five"? Well, HDZ BiH has been in power for 25,
00:06:1030 years, their president perhaps even 50 years, manages significant
00:06:14resources in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has shown that
00:06:17he is not capable, that he cannot solve key national issues, that he cannot
00:06:20stop the exodus of Croats and all other citizens from Bosnia and
00:06:24Herzegovina, that it is full of clientelism,
00:06:27nepotism, corruption, so we come from a completely different
00:06:30spectrum, we are significantly younger, at least by
00:06:3420 years, we haven't had the opportunity to show
00:06:37what we know, and in these elections we have united to
00:06:41together offer the Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina to
00:06:44enable them to vote. They will vote as they think is best
00:06:48for them. We are offering ourselves and have shown through our agreement that we are ready for
00:06:52compromise, for agreement, that is the path we want this
00:06:56country to take, through agreement, through compromise. And we believe that we can do
00:06:59much better, that we can be more qualitative, that we can be more honest, that we can be more humane, that
00:07:03we can be more inclusive, that we will not be alienated, that we will simply
00:07:07live our political life in a different
00:07:10way. It is difficult to find differences in some national topics,
00:07:14electoral law, the organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I expect every
00:07:17responsible Croat who is involved in public affairs to try
00:07:21through their conscience to reach a position on what is best for Croats in Bosnia and
00:07:24Herzegovina, we have defined that in the way we defined it and
00:07:28we stand by it, you mentioned the electoral law, what else besides the electoral
00:07:31law, uh, which is according to many opinions today the biggest
00:07:35problem, what are the other challenges that you pose to
00:07:39the "five", well, on the same level, nothing less.
00:07:42Stopping the exodus and emigration from Bosnia and
00:07:46Herzegovina, motivation for the return of especially younger
00:07:49people in this uh uh
00:07:52difficult time in Western Europe when people want to
00:07:55return, but simply there is no sense of a returning
00:07:58climate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is no sense that Bosnia and Herzegovina in its
00:08:02legislation, in its organization, in its agreement, in the relations
00:08:06within Bosnia and Herzegovina, has moved even a little forward so that these people
00:08:10would make that final step or final decision for
00:08:13returning, that will definitely be one of the important topics alongside the electoral
00:08:17law, not after, but alongside the electoral law, the fight against
00:08:21crime, corruption for an independent judiciary that is
00:08:24under political influence, with due respect to individuals, I don't want
00:08:28to generalize, but the judiciary is the starting point for
00:08:31the liberation of all other segments of life
00:08:34in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so we have no influence on the judiciary
00:08:37nor do we seek it, nor do we want to have it, but we want
00:08:41through amendments to laws that relate to the judiciary, including
00:08:44the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) and the court that somehow haven't been adopted, we want to
00:08:48free that judiciary from political influence, no, I don't need
00:08:52to, I'm sure the public knows that today the judiciary
00:08:55is under absolute political influence, that indictments
00:08:59are flying against political opponents, that it is
00:09:02simply the worst thing in Bosnia and
00:09:05Herzegovina at this moment and what the recovery of this
00:09:09society should start from, that is the fight for a free judiciary. "And
00:09:12that is also the first segment in negotiations, the first cluster of negotiations with the European
00:09:16Union, so that's why they are not opening, because if you had
00:09:18a free judiciary, billions have disappeared from this country
00:09:22in the past 30 years, so let the rule of law
00:09:26function, let it condemn all those who are guilty of it, even if
00:09:29it's someone from our ranks, it doesn't matter at all, the only thing that matters is that there is no
00:09:33selective approach, that there is a transparent and equal approach to
00:09:36everyone. We will talk about the European path, I would like to dwell a little more on this
00:09:40question of the position of Croats in BiH. You welcomed the resolution
00:09:43of the Croatian Parliament on the political empowerment of Croats in Bosnia and
00:09:46Herzegovina, I want to ask you one concrete thing,
00:09:50how much was that resolution truly produced by the situation in Bosnia and
00:09:53Herzegovina, and how much by the desire of some parties in Croatia to further
00:09:57prove their importance? Well, I think that if you want to
00:10:00weigh it, the desire for
00:10:03the fight for a better position of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina prevails. I know
00:10:07many authors and I socialize, so I will be free to
00:10:10say that I partly participated in creating that resolution in its very
00:10:14beginning with the goal
00:10:18of stabilizing the political situation in Bosnia and
00:10:20Herzegovina, not direct interference but... a message
00:10:23to Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian Parliament
00:10:27stands behind you, just as we in '94 and
00:10:30'95 guided you or even worked
00:10:34in your name, arranged such an organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we
00:10:37accept that, we are aware of that and as guarantors
00:10:41of that, we stand for you, we will give support for you to reach
00:10:44an agreement within Bosnia and Herzegovina that will stabilize
00:10:48political relations, especially in the federation, I
00:10:51guarantee that this is not. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not against Bosniaks,
00:10:55it is not against Serbs, I am sorry that the resolution still does not have one, one
00:10:59clause that speaks about the entity of Republika Srpska about the position
00:11:02of Croats in Republika Srpska which is catastrophic, and why is there no such part? Well, I don't know
00:11:06why there isn't, I suggested in the final, it was modified
00:11:09several times, it had to be found and then it was agreed upon within the coalition with
00:11:13HDZ, DP and other political
00:11:16entities, and with the influence perhaps of HDZ from
00:11:19Mostar, that part was eliminated, I'm sorry, you want to say that the close ties
00:11:23between SNSD and HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina produced the fact that that part
00:11:26is not in the mentioned part? Very possible, very possible that it was like that, but
00:11:30I repeat, despite that, the resolution is
00:11:34a document against which only one member of parliament
00:11:36in the Croatian Parliament voted, which shows that there are no
00:11:40left or right, no or those in the center who do not
00:11:44recognize the relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who have not understood
00:11:47that support is needed, no, I would not say classic interference, and from
00:11:51the first day I recognize the importance
00:11:54of such a resolution adopted in that way, unlike
00:11:58those from HDZ BiH the president of the federation
00:12:01said a few days before the adoption of the resolution, until the order
00:12:04came from Zagreb to support it, that no one should
00:12:07interfere in Bosnia and Herzegovina, let the actors within Bosnia and Herzegovina agree, so
00:12:11why didn't you agree for 25 years, you see that you have neither the will nor
00:12:15the strength to agree, this resolution is for me an incentive
00:12:18for political representatives of both Bosniaks and Croats, especially these two
00:12:21peoples, you have friends in us, sit down.
00:12:25agree, solve it, we will support you on the European
00:12:28path to solving this important issue for Croats, but especially for Bosnia and
00:12:32Herzegovina, there were attempts to solve it, it's not that it wasn't
00:12:35true in the last mandate, no, but in some earlier
00:12:38period, a final solution was never really reached, everyone who
00:12:42tried to make a compromise on one side or the other was
00:12:46prematurely declared traitors, do you think
00:12:49that given that it certainly won't be resolved before the elections, after
00:12:52the elections there are some options, some forces... that can sit at
00:12:56the same table and agree on something that at this moment seems to be
00:12:59the biggest problem, not only of the federation, but of the complete relations between Bosniaks
00:13:03and Croats in BiH, absolutely, if we start from the trace
00:13:06and if we put the thesis that the relations between Croats
00:13:10and Bosniaks are the key to the stability of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:13:13the key to the Euro-Atlantic path of Bosnia and Herzegovina, if we have elections
00:13:17in a month and if we know that we will continue to wallow in
00:13:21political mud if we don't solve these key issues, then if necessary, we still
00:13:25need this electoral law, then I am sure that
00:13:28the citizens in these elections will realize that the time has come to
00:13:32perhaps give someone else an opportunity, who will have
00:13:35the strength to make such a difficult decision and be prepared
00:13:39for criticism from a part of the hypocritical public that
00:13:42deliberately creates such an environment trying to already prematurely
00:13:46label all those who want a minimum of compromise as traitors, you want to
00:13:49say that the situation would be more relaxed if
00:13:52in the elections for the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. a member of the "five" or
00:13:56a member or candidate of HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina won. That
00:13:59would be a much better situation for everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now I don't know
00:14:03how the Central Election Commission will react, we still have seven or eight
00:14:07days until the campaign starts punishing stories, we are not talking about the campaign,
00:14:11we are talking about what could therefore be the agreement on
00:14:14the electoral law. What is crucial in the candidate, or in the member
00:14:18of the Presidency for me is that he is recognized and
00:14:21as a legitimate Croatian to the end through...
00:14:25his life, his work, his participation in the Homeland
00:14:28War and a state-building Bosnian-Herzegovinian, that is the
00:14:32candidate we offer, who is not against anyone, who
00:14:35is for, but people, we must wake up, we must understand what
00:14:39troubles those who are fewer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it costs
00:14:43no one anything, but there is fear, a few days ago
00:14:47information appeared, allegedly if a candidate from the HDZ
00:14:50of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the SNSD enters the Presidency of Bosnia and
00:14:54Herzegovina. that there is already an alleged agreement that
00:14:57Milorad Dodik will be pardoned and then take over the function
00:15:01of Prime Minister of Republika Srpska. That is something
00:15:04that is obviously feared by a part of the public in the Federation of Bosnia and
00:15:08Herzegovina. But that public is continuously frightened
00:15:11by some potential conspiracies. I really don't know what these two
00:15:15candidates can do. I know what the candidate of the "five" would do,
00:15:19probably and certainly, if he were in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:15:22even though he is independent. Everything that
00:15:26is against the interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he would be against it, everything that
00:15:30is in the interest of the Croatian people, he would absolutely advocate for it
00:15:33and would be a defender of the interests of the people and the state,
00:15:37and what will the others do? "Others will do, well, they have shown in the past 20, 30 years
00:15:40how they will behave and what they will do, the candidate we
00:15:43support is certainly not against anyone, but for, he will always be
00:15:47proactive, offer solutions, offer a better standard, a better life,
00:15:51they say he is not competent to comment on this or that topic, well, a member of the presidency by his
00:15:54authority is competent to speak about all phenomena in society,
00:15:58of course he should talk about the judiciary and ideologies and what was
00:16:02before 30 years ago, because the public must know who we are
00:16:05dealing with, about the legitimate representation of Croats in Bosnia and
00:16:08Herzegovina, Gordan Grlić Radman and MEP Željana
00:16:12Zovko have also spoken out these days, who proposes the Belgian model
00:16:16as a principle for solving the situation
00:16:20in Bosnia and Herzegovina, how do you comment on that proposal,
00:16:23specifically? Well, I don't want to comment on any individual
00:16:27proposal at this moment, a month before the elections, especially from people who
00:16:31had the opportunity through their political parties to do it, what do you mean by
00:16:34that all of this is in the function of the campaign. "He who rules for
00:16:3825 years, and among Croats that is HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:16:41if he offers Belgian, Swiss, any
00:16:45solutions a month before the elections, it is only for the elections, it is not for
00:16:48solutions, so we simply as a group
00:16:51of parties will not have as a partner anyone who is not ready to
00:16:55implement these solutions, any model that was proposed a few
00:16:58days ago that the condition for establishing power after the October
00:17:02elections would be precisely the electoral law, would you, why not
00:17:05act in that way, why not?"
00:17:07"Why not, it's time, so, we don't need conditions, but it's
00:17:11obvious, yes, but in the previous mandate there were no conditions, so no
00:17:15agreement was reached, although we implicitly had the guarantee of the President of HDZ Bosnia and
00:17:19Herzegovina that the Federation government would not be formed until
00:17:22the electoral law was amended, six months after the formation, then in 15
00:17:26days, then in 20, then thousands of days passed, nothing was
00:17:29done, why not that, why not use all
00:17:33democratic tools to convince the other to act
00:17:36wrongly, to act..." to act correctly for this country, people,
00:17:40I, I call on the public to understand that nothing will change
00:17:44if Croats had dominant influence, well, 100% can't
00:17:47vote for someone ever, but dominant influence
00:17:50the possibility of full pluralism, so today we
00:17:53don't have a situation among Croats that someone
00:17:56calls the candidate we support a traitor because of his
00:17:59background, because of his national responsibility, because of
00:18:02his political and military activity, that was the goal
00:18:06of that, because... that when he appeared, a
00:18:09good part of Bosniaks, specifically saw hope in him somewhere
00:18:13and gave him support, then that story changed in the meantime
00:18:17precisely because of what we talked about at the beginning, that is that
00:18:21the "five" went, it seems, too far 10, well, the "five" is where it needs to
00:18:24be, that story is very relative, we are HDZ
00:18:2790 is center-right, these are our traditional Christian
00:18:31values that we advocate for and that are defined by our
00:18:35declarations, our statute, that is the political framework in which we
00:18:38move, we don't go too far there or too far here,
00:18:42but the candidate is not against anyone, he is welcome for
00:18:45everyone, uh, Croatian interests of course he will primarily
00:18:49advocate for them, he will defend the state, state interests, of course that is
00:18:52implied, but if someone creates a perception,
00:18:56with the aim of helping someone
00:18:59else, and we have experience of 16 years, what it means
00:19:02when someone like that third person sits in the Presidency of Bosnia and
00:19:06Herzegovina, not that... "we will not take a step forward, it will be more steps
00:19:09backward, wallowing in mud, not solving the problem of emigration from Bosnia
00:19:13and Herzegovina, we do not want to participate in that, yes, when you mention the third, you had
00:19:17a conflict through the media, through
00:19:20social networks with Slaven Kovačević, the candidate
00:19:24of the Democratic Front for a member of the Presidency from the Croatian
00:19:27people, how do you comment on the fact that you were actually accused
00:19:30of spreading hate speech? I have
00:19:34said a lot, I have never had a conflict or discussion with that
00:19:37gentleman, I don't want to at all, so it's some kind of media
00:19:40quarrel, first of all what what what I would ask him and what I would
00:19:44recommend to him is to enable people to
00:19:47live freely with electricity and water in the apartment
00:19:51where that family has lived for 70 years, when
00:19:55below him he should explain to the public
00:19:57how in the municipality to which he belongs in the past
00:20:01period the ownership changed, he had ownership
00:20:05rights to one canton, to one. This family, how he
00:20:08exchanged that, why do these people today live in the center of Sarajevo without
00:20:12electricity and water, let him explain that to the public and then let him fight for
00:20:16justice, if you don't respect universal
00:20:19justice, the right to a normal life, how will you
00:20:22represent anyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is a fraud against Bosnia and
00:20:26Herzegovina, it is not even against Croats, it is primarily against Bosnia and
00:20:30Herzegovina, it is the influence of someone else to further
00:20:33destabilize relations between Croats and Bosniaks in the federation, and
00:20:37I repeat. on the third way, that is the key to the Euro-Atlantic path of Bosnia and
00:20:40Herzegovina. I will return to that question that we talked about
00:20:44last time as well when we discussed this topic, that
00:20:47is two against one when it comes to the race for
00:20:50the presidency, or for a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the ranks of
00:20:54Croats, do you think that in that struggle the one on
00:20:58the other side will win because of this situation we're in? I don't
00:21:02think about that, uh, and we thought intensely about what to do
00:21:05as responsible people, self-aware people, what
00:21:09to do, and our final decision, which we absolutely
00:21:12stand behind, is that the Croatian people must have the possibility of choice, they have
00:21:16the possibility of choice between an independent candidate Vučić and a candidate
00:21:20from HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina, the third candidate for us does not exist,
00:21:22is not an option, I don't want to count blood
00:21:26grains, he does not represent national interests, he does not represent state-building
00:21:29interests, we are not afraid of scenarios, we believe that the candidate we
00:21:32support will achieve such a result, win the elections and
00:21:36finally that Croats in the Presidency of Bosnia and
00:21:39Herzegovina will have a person of caliber, of authority,
00:21:43of dignity, of a respectable past, of a
00:21:46formed and complete person who does not need material wealth, a man.
00:21:50a formed man, who has satisfied all his financial needs, who has
00:21:53peace, a man who came out of comfort and offered himself, so I am
00:21:57sure that we will not be in that situation at all, but again the crucial
00:22:00thing is, we have not systematically resolved the issue of electing members
00:22:03of the presidency, as long as we do not systematically resolve that, we have not done
00:22:07our job, whoever is elected, that must be the first topic and we will use
00:22:11all democratic tools available to achieve
00:22:14that, and the state should of course continue to function,
00:22:17we saw what happened in the previous. years of blockades,
00:22:21blockades, blockades, apart from the adoption of the budget, almost nothing concrete was adopted
00:22:25in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, uh,
00:22:28do you think that a similar principle will be continued even after the October
00:22:32elections, and even when a new government is established,
00:22:35if the forces that are currently dominant continue to
00:22:38do the same, it is illusory to expect different effects,
00:22:42it is not possible, so, if the same people manage
00:22:45processes, make decisions, of course you must expect
00:22:48the same scenario. the same situation, blockades, stagnation,
00:22:52emigration, riots, dissatisfaction,
00:22:55apathy, depression in society, that's why there are elections, that's once every four
00:22:59years when citizens have the opportunity, only that day they decide, how much
00:23:03do you think that the application of modern technologies
00:23:06will affect the elections, which will definitely be at all polling
00:23:10stations on October 4th, will that, to
00:23:13a significant extent, change the actual election
00:23:16results from those we had in previous years? Well,
00:23:20honestly, I believe that it will drastically affect the election
00:23:23results, according to some of my
00:23:26unproven estimates that I receive from the field, no
00:23:29less than 20% lower results,
00:23:33only because of new election technologies for parties that have ruled
00:23:37for years in Bosnia and Herzegovina, these three key ones, I don't want to repeat them, I don't want to
00:23:40mention them anymore, so it will certainly have an effect. impact.
00:23:44on the election result and what is especially important for everyone
00:23:48in Bosnia and Herzegovina to now...
00:23:50No one should stay home, because they can be sure that their
00:23:54vote, as they mark it, will be realized as that
00:23:57voter wished. The polling committees will not be able to change the will
00:24:01of the voters. So, I am sure that it will drastically and significantly affect
00:24:05the results themselves, the voting process,
00:24:08the desire of voters to go to the polls, because no one will steal their vote. What
00:24:12is very valuable is their electoral will and
00:24:16the decision of that voter for whom they want to govern for the next four years.
00:24:20and Herzegovina, Mr. Cvitanović, I want to comment on one more topic,
00:24:24it concerns the OHR office, there is no agreement on the election
00:24:27of a new high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, uh, but when you
00:24:31look at everything, things are going their way even without a high representative
00:24:34and with him, we are in a crisis then in a crisis, uh, is
00:24:38that actually an indicator that this country can do without
00:24:42foreign tutors, well, you've set the thesis, so what happened, nothing
00:24:45significant has happened since Christian Schmidt left and we have
00:24:49an acting high representative, so problems, problems, problems,
00:24:53misunderstanding, tough political struggle, this
00:24:56country definitely must start functioning without international
00:25:00influence and without a high representative and without foreign judges in the constitutional court,
00:25:03but for that, it needs to meet a few very
00:25:07small preconditions, very minor things, it must pass a law on
00:25:10state property, it must regulate that area, it must show
00:25:13the international community that it is a partner that fulfills
00:25:17its assumed obligations, the high representative will not leave
00:25:21until the international community says he should leave, but if politics will be conducted
00:25:24in the way it has been conducted for the past 4, 8, 12
00:25:28years, the high representative here, whoever comes,
00:25:32will definitely live to a ripe old age, because with these
00:25:35political actors, this progress will not happen, which is necessary for the international
00:25:39community to say, these people have shown credibility, they don't need
00:25:42a foreign tutor, they can manage processes and make
00:25:45decisions themselves. In the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on several occasions,
00:25:49attempts were made to reach a solution to at least partially
00:25:53abolish excises on fuel due to this crisis we are facing, there was no
00:25:57political agreement, there was no understanding, on the other
00:26:00hand, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 25 years. has built
00:26:04only 250 km of highway, all of which cost more than two
00:26:07billion euros, not convertible marks, but
00:26:10euros, then the question arises where does that money from
00:26:14excises, which citizens have been paying since 2018,
00:26:18if I'm not mistaken, go. You've listed that well, so Croatia
00:26:21has 1600 I think kilometers
00:26:25of highways, Bosnia and Herzegovina in both entities has as much as
00:26:28you said in the past four years, I don't know if even
00:26:32one meter of highway has been built, and 7
00:26:36km on corridor 5c, which has been under construction for eight
00:26:39years, which has been under construction for eight
00:26:42years, was opened a few days ago. So much money, I had a parliamentary
00:26:45question about where the massive billions went, I never got
00:26:49an answer, an answer about where all that money went and why
00:26:53that highway is being built, the money simply
00:26:55ends up in budgets, and from the budgets,
00:26:59either individuals or private companies loyal to
00:27:02political structures are satisfied, and they then
00:27:08ways, both politically and individually,
00:27:11by financing all their activities, so that money
00:27:14ends up where there is no benefit for citizens. You mentioned
00:27:17fuel excises, well, isn't it a shame that those 30
00:27:21fenigs, which would not significantly affect the revenues
00:27:25of the indirect taxation authority, which are growing much more than
00:27:28planned, that the parliament accepted to abolish that and that...
00:27:32that fuel be 30 fenigs cheaper, but let's
00:27:35move on, what's up with our terminals in Ploče? The state audit
00:27:39cannot enter that company, see who are
00:27:43these people who have been managing for years, from which political
00:27:46option they come, who is the president of the supervisory board, the general secretary of a
00:27:49party, let's see why through that port we don't
00:27:52enable competition, diversification, why
00:27:56oil is coming to us all the time, sanctions
00:28:00against Russia, we are all the time, as far as I have information. we use that oil through
00:28:03Ploče in Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina, why don't
00:28:07we remove customs duties 10%
00:28:09for oil from other areas that is imported,
00:28:13that way we would reduce the price of fuel to 2.5 marks,
00:28:16but there is no political will, there are no individuals who are ready
00:28:20to roll up their sleeves and work, if the
00:28:22people are satisfied with that, great, as far as I'm concerned, let them continue, we are not
00:28:26satisfied and that's why we are running in the elections in this way, we will see what the citizens
00:28:30will say on October 4th, thank you. for being our guest, for discussing
00:28:34these topics, thank you for the invitation. Ilija Cvitanović,
00:28:37president of HDZ 1990, was with us in the
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