The citizens of Bihac are electing a new mayor today. The position remained vacant after Suhret Fazlic accepted a mandate in the Assembly of the Una-Sana Canton USC and five candidates are fighting for the position of the first man of the city.
The migrant crisis in Bihac has subsided. The unemployment and the departure of young people are just some of the problems that have surfaced in the past, and are just some of the problems that await the new mayor. Bihac, which used to be considered a sports city, does not have a Sports Hall for the third year. The work on the reconstruction of the existing one has stopped because of disagreements between the city administration and the contractor.
We have already missed one Olympic cycle, not to mention those generations that were yet to enter sports. Sports clubs, coaches manage in other smaller halls in Bihac or smaller municipalities, it is really lacking and this is a big handicap for all athletes, culture, and other events that take place, according to Ermin Lipovic, director of the Public Institution for Sport, Rest, and Recreation in Bihac.
Bihac is not a great place to live today, according to the statistics. 6.000 people have left the city from 2015 to today. A one-way ticket to the West is not bought by the hungry, but by those who are full of everything. Suad Balic's sons were full of everything. He sent the four of them away.
I would like my house to be full, I have five grandchildren, and I have to go 1.000 kilometers to see them. A friend of mine said: Suad, it is better to miss them than to pity them. Not one of them could find a job here. Suad says that they were probably worn out by the protection during employment.
There are five candidates running for mayor. Three are party candidates and two are independent.
Who is going to lead Bihac in the next two years? More than 1.300 people are registered to vote abroad, according to a total of 58.000 voters.