As a model of government action that should be expanded throughout the country, Sarajevo is an example of positive processes and synergy in the work within the Coalition of Three, as these parties frequently point out, as well as a political fairy tale that has already faded well before the eyes of the citizens of the capital.
Stories of social assistance for expectant mothers as a hit-reform and a new tram line as a capital project have long been buried by garbage, which in high July temperatures has become more unbearable than winter smog.
The parliamentary majority in Canton Sarajevo CS, which again lacks a hand or two after it decided to throw SBiH out of power and introduce a few independent representatives with substantial portfolios, is just one of a series of problems of the government in Sarajevo.
Even bigger problems, disagreements, and scandals are present in the local structures of the Coalition of Three government, which are particularly evident in the municipalities of Centar and Novo Sarajevo, which were known as trophies and symbol of the overthrow of the long-standing SDA government and the return of true values, even the image of the multi-ethnicity of the capital. At every step, changes, capital projects, construction, and everything that was the expectations of the citizens are invisible.
The mayor of Novo Sarajevo, Hasan Tanovic SDP, was supported by a campaign of intellectuals, writers, and doctors who gathered videos and eulogies in his honor, all with the aim of demolishing his impregnable fortress. SDA, and the corrupt Nedzad Koldza, announced that his first step after taking over the Municipal Audit was to expose his predecessor's crimes, which he never did. He responded with a arrogance, indifference, and ingratitude to the massive support of citizens eager for change.
And just as Tanovic will only be remembered for buying an expensive electric car, Srdjan Mandic NS, the mayor of Centar, with tens of millions of unexecuted budgets, drew the public s attention with the famous quasi-project Sarajevo carpet, which, due to the millions of dollars it cost and the citizens dissatisfaction with the appearance and purpose of such a sculpture, is already an affair in itself. But what is even more devastating than the Sarajevo mayors who lack the ideas is the fact that their impeachment is sought just a year before the regular local elections, and in the case of Mandic, behind everything, appears to be the ambitious son of a high-ranking member of the NiP, Kemal Ademovic, Jasmin.
The personnel failures and lack of vision at other levels of government in Sarajevo are best illustrated by the recent statement of the CS minister, Nihad Uk, in which he cites the failure of utility companies and mechanization as the cause of the huge amount of garbage in the city, completely ignoring the fact that the party he comes from has held the position of Prime Minister for almost four years.