The Platform for Progress is diligently preparing for its annual convention, which is coming up in February.  This includes rewriting the current bylaws to better reflect the goals and missions of the Platform following lessons learned during the recent local elections across the country.  The new bylaws will then be presented during the convention and voted upon by the delegates.  Mirsad Hadzikadic, the president of the Platform for Progress, openly admits these are very challenging times for the Platform as it addresses everything from internal personnel issues, to voter fraud allegations in Mostar.

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Following the local election in Mostar in November there was clear evidence of fraud, votes being stolen.  The Platform for Progress filed a grievance with the Bosnian Central Electoral Commission, making it aware of the situation and asking for a recount.  However, the commission passed on the grievance to the Supreme Court of Bosnia, which turned down that request.  This, as we hear from Mirsad Hadzikadic the president of the Platform, despite documentation of votes being stolen, and in the majority of the cases from Platform for Progress candidates.  We spoke about the dilemma and what, if anything, can be done.

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Hopes were running high for the Platform for Progress following the local elections in November as there were clear signs that the Platform was indeed becoming a political force, a power broker, in Bosnian politics.  However, events of recent have cast a bit of a shadow on the new enthusiasm as the strategizing for the 2022 general elections had already begun.  There were already plans underway to restructure some of the personnel within the Platform, which in itself was causing some personnel issues.  However, one of the top members of the presidential governing board handed in his resignation as well as some other members of the Platform.  There has been a defection by at least one Platform member who was elected to a city council seat.  And with all of this the mudslinging against Mirsad and the Platform has begun in earnest both internally and externally.  I recently spoke with Mirsad about these troubling and challenging times and what lies ahead.

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With the local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina now over the Platform for Progress has begun in earnest its planning and strategizing for the 2022 general elections.  For Mirsad Hadzikadić, president of the Platform for Progress, and the members of his team they now have the luxury of having been through one general election and the local elections.  They can look at what did and did not work as they plan for the future.  Over the last 2 1/2 years the Platform has established itself as a political force, and with that the growing pains that come with it.  Mirsad and I spoke about the most recent meeting of the presidential governing board as it looks forward to the 2022 presidential election and what needs to be done.

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