Jelena Trivic, the candidate of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (PDP), lost just under 30,000 votes to her opponent Milorad Dodik in the race for the presidency of BiH. the Republika Srpska entity, thus, shows the CEC results after 90% of polling stations were processed.
The PDP headquarters say that there was theft and that there are serious grounds for canceling the presidential elections in most of Republika Srpska.
On election night on Sunday in Banja Luka, there was joy, singing and everyone was a winner.
Jelena Trivic, who was declared the winner of the presidency of the Republic of Srpska, was greeted with thunderous applause at the PDP election headquarters.
She then said, among other things, that RS would follow Serbia’s national policy and that it would not betray it as Milorad Dodik.
“Our obligation is to empower RS economically and in every other way to make it de facto economically independent in this complex political structure called BiH,” she added.
On the streets of Banja Luka, there was a torchlight, trumpeters arrived and the song “Veseli se srpski rode” was heard.
Soon Dodik declared victory, and the hit of the evening at the SNSD headquarters was the song “Ne može nam niko ništa” and the song “Romanija” performed by Dodik. He said that “democratic awareness ” won, promising continued cooperation with “our important partners such as Serbia, Russia, Hungary…“.
While waiting for the green light from Belgrade, let us remind ourselves that both raced to see who would ingratiate Aleksandar Vucic more so that nothing changes ideologically from that point.
The courtship of the opposition in RS towards the regime in Belgrade has been particularly evident since the April elections in Serbia, when almost all opposition parties from Republika Srpska rushed to publicly show support for Vucic and his party, competing to see who would be more vocal in that support.
Trivić then voted properly at the polling station in Zemun, and Dodik at the polling station in Dedinje.
“Dodik managed to defeat Aleksandar Vučić”, his Banja Luka colleague Dragan Bursac sublimated the situation after Sunday’s elections, hinting that Vucic, with his tabloids and the media, wholeheartedly supported the opposition and Jelena Trivic.
Not only that – members of the SNS Main Board Vladimir Mandić (already involved in the “battle for Nikšić” and Budva) and Adam Šukalo were detained in Banja Luka and released ahead of the elections in BiH, due to suspicions that they were buying votes for Jelena Trivić and PDP, Banja Luka media reported.
By sending Mandić and Šukal to Banja Luka to support Trivić logistically and financially, Vucic let Dodik ”down the drain“ because he allegedly got close to Croatian president Zoran Milanovic.
Trivić also resents the alliance between Dodik and Milanović, but not because they are both working to tear a piece of the state of BiH where she lives and works, but because of Zagreb’s attitude and policy towards Belgrade.
This is not surprising given that the same opposition in RS called Dodik out why he did not implement the RS National assembly conclusions of December last year on transferring key competencies from the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Republika Srpska, which was practically the first step towards secession of the entity.
When there was a fuss over Zagreb’s decision not to allow a “private visit” by Vucic to Jasenovac, Trivic defended him, stating that Vučić is not a person who ever “creates chaos”, and that peace is the focus of his political activities.
At the 32nd special session in June in the National Assembly of the RS, with the remark that the Bosnian language appears as an option on the websites of BiH institution and that someone is to blame for it, she called on the representatives of the authorities in the RS to line up the RS army.
“What are your staff doing? I would also jump there when Kosovo is mentioned without an footnote and a mention of the Security Council resolution. Why didn’t they fight, and they were paid handsomely. I would fought for Kosovo”.
Two years ago, her status on Facebook sparked a lot of reactions. “Draza Mihailovic is not a criminal, that’s my position. These are the facts I came up with. He was a heroic figure in the West until 1943,” she said.
At the same time, she avoids publicly expressing her views on the criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.
“It is too early for me to make judgments about Radovan Karadžić, but it is certain that I have a well-formed opinion about all this”.
Trivić, 37, was born in Banja Luka. She was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka in 2014. and teaches students at the Department of international economic relations.
She was named the best lecturer several times.
She believes that eradicating corruption and crime is a prerequisite for change. She sees the“ Open Balkan “as “an excellent economic opportunity that BiH should not throw away”.
Serbian national interest is military neutrality and, she says, we should not interfere in the global crisis that Republika Srpska neither caused nor can stop.
In the General Elections of 2018, she was elected as an MP in NSRS when she declared that she would give up the salary she received at the Faculty of Economics.
She speaks English and Italian. She often boasted about her football skills.
She is married and the mother of two sons./Danas
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