Bosnian local election poll 2016

[Albobalboa]

Did these local elections prove anything or change anything? All I've gathered so far is that there now is a Serbian mayor of Srebrenica rather than a Bosniak one which seems to me quite a significant change, especially as Bosniaks are written there as the majority population.

[Minesweeper]

Did these local elections prove anything or change anything? All I've gathered so far is that there now is a Serbian mayor of Srebrenica rather than a Bosniak one which seems to me quite a significant change, especially as Bosniaks are written there as the majority population.

They did. First of all, they have shown that independent candidates are growing stronger and that they can defeat those of mainstream parties. That means parties will have to be more careful when choosing their candidates and that means better people will run in future.

Croats have remained faithful to their national parties although low turnout shows some sort of disappointment. Serbs had the best turnout and massively supported Dodik's SNSD contrary to expectations, he humiliated the Sarajevo backed opposition. Bosniak national party SDA suffered a heavy blow imo. They lost almost entire Krajina(NW enclave), Zenica which is one of the biggest cities, they failed to take over Tuzla another big city from Social-Democrats, lost quite a few Croatian or Croatian-Bosniak municipalities including some where Bosniaks make up majority of population to Croatian HDZ and Srebrenica to Serbian candidate.

Winners: Independent candidates, SNSD, HDZ
Losers: SDS, SDA, Social-Democrats of BiH separated in various smaller parties and movements that could easily beat SDA if united.

[Albobalboa]

They did. First of all, they have shown that independent candidates are growing stronger and that they can defeat those of mainstream parties. That means parties will have to be more careful when choosing their candidates and that means better people will run in future.

Croats have remained faithful to their national parties although low turnout shows some sort of disappointment. Serbs had the best turnout and massively supported Dodik's SNSD contrary to expectations, he humiliated the Sarajevo backed opposition. Bosniak national party SDA suffered a heavy blow imo. They lost almost entire Krajina(NW enclave), Zenica which is one of the biggest cities, they failed to take over Tuzla another big city from Social-Democrats, lost quite a few Croatian or Croatian-Bosniak municipalities including some where Bosniaks make up majority of population to Croatian HDZ and Srebrenica to Serbian candidate.

Winners: Independent candidates, SNSD, HDZ
Losers: SDS, SDA, Social-Democrats of BiH separated in various smaller parties and movements that could easily beat SDA if united.

Alright you cleared it up massively that's great. Not a good election season for the Bosniaks then it seems, they dropped the ball on this one. Better luck next time

[Minesweeper]

Alright you cleared it up massively that's great. Not a good election season for the Bosniaks then it seems, they dropped the ball on this one. Better luck next time

I wouldn't say so. These elections are not bad for Bosnian Democracy in general but Bosniak Nationalists don't have much to be happy about, yeah.

[The Illyrian Warrior]

Bosniaks screwed big time to let Srebrenica getting out of their hands to a Serb rival, that is indeed a shameful event given their majority status and horrifying past that town/municipality carries with.

[Mraz]

I wouldn't say so. These elections are not bad for Bosnian Democracy in general but Bosniak Nationalists don't have much to be happy about, yeah.

Well, on a local level when the municipality is 99% Bosniak, I don't see why SDA should be elected. It's better to have some local leader who doesn't have to follow his party. If they are bad at ruling then you change mayor and vote for a personality no matter you don't like his political colour. SDA won where it had to won (Central Bosnia), for Srebrenica it'll give Bakir more votes next elections because SNSD and SDA will speak big words during the campaign and it will just take the new mayor from Srebrenica to tell something Bosniaks don't like to make flamewars, Bosniaks will stick to Izetbegovic, Serbs to Dodik. Win-win situation.

[Freeroostah]

Support the Right!

[Minesweeper]

Well, on a local level when the municipality is 99% Bosniak, I don't see why SDA should be elected. It's better to have some local leader who doesn't have to follow his party. If they are bad at ruling then you change mayor and vote for a personality no matter you don't like his political colour. SDA won where it had to won (Central Bosnia), for Srebrenica it'll give Bakir more votes next elections because SNSD and SDA will speak big words during the campaign and it will just take the new mayor from Srebrenica to tell something Bosniaks don't like to make flamewars, Bosniaks will stick to Izetbegovic, Serbs to Dodik. Win-win situation.

I agree but if you lost that many municipalities, it means party establishment failed in their choice of candidates. We will see if Bakir will survive this unharmed, I read there are already calls for inter-party elections by some SDA members. He deserves to suffer consequences imo. Just like the leadership of SDS here.

[The Illyrian Warrior]

Well, on a local level when the municipality is 99% Bosniak, I don't see why SDA should be elected. It's better to have some local leader who doesn't have to follow his party. If they are bad at ruling then you change mayor and vote for a personality no matter you don't like his political colour. SDA won where it had to won (Central Bosnia), for Srebrenica it'll give Bakir more votes next elections because SNSD and SDA will speak big words during the campaign and it will just take the new mayor from Srebrenica to tell something Bosniaks don't like to make flamewars, Bosniaks will stick to Izetbegovic, Serbs to Dodik. Win-win situation.

You think is wise choice to elect a serb mayor in order to give boost of certain Bosniak political figure in general election (implying your version will take place), hopefully you don't put importance in individual figure or party over a sacred place many Bosniaks left their bones at. Like I said what Bosniak did or better put didn't do was shameful for victims of Srebrenica.

[Mraz]

I agree but if you lost that many municipalities, it means party establishment failed in their choice of candidates. We will see if Bakir will survive this unharmed, I read there are already calls for inter-party elections by some SDA members. He deserves to suffer consequences imo. Just like the leadership of SDS here.

He'll suffer nothing, SDA method of working is pretty easy : you take uncompetent people and give them positions or people with a criminal past. They owe you everything and will never betray you and will never think higher than what you order them.
Now I guess SDA will take revenge by blocking some municipalities via the cantons, they have the most mandates for USK for exemple and I guess they are able to block funds and so on. SDA will rather make life miserable to the municipalities they lost or they don't rule than to make some change. We're talking about a leader for whom "33km² is better than 10 other municipalities" and takes pride of winning that municipality of Center Sarajevo.