The facts
Polls opened Sunday in Bosnia’s general election, with about 3.4 million eligible voters choosing members of the three‑member presidency, national legislators and leaders for the two entities. The Associated Press reported that several polling stations experienced delays because new digital voting machines were being introduced to address earlier concerns about vote tampering. Former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, who is barred from holding public office after a conviction for defying the international envoy overseeing the 1995 peace agreement, dominated the campaign despite not appearing on the ballot. The AP said Dodik’s party is expected to win the Serb‑majority entity, and Dodik has publicly called Bosnia “dead” while EU‑membership progress remains stalled.
Our take
Here’s the perfect snapshot of Balkan political bullshit: a convicted cunt who got barred for defying the international peace envoy is still running the whole fucking election from the sidelines. Milorad Dodik’s party is cruising to victory in the Serb‑majority entity while he, legally forbidden from holding a public post, pulls the strings like a puppet master with a broken heart. The geniuses behind this circus rolled out new digital voting machines to stop fraud, and the first thing the tech did was cause delays at polling stations. It’s the bureaucratic equivalent of buying a high‑tech alarm to stop your house from being robbed, then locking yourself out because the keypad fries your fingers. Three‑point‑four million voters stood in line watching this upgrade fumble while the same old party machine, built by the banned fuckhead, kept churning. Dodik’s campaign pitch is that Bosnia is ‘dead.’ That’s the ultimate grifter move: spend decades feeding off state institutions, get convicted for undermining them, then declare the whole patient deceased while arranging its funeral for profit. He’s a political necrophiliac, pronouncing the body cold while his hands are still in its pockets. The EU membership process is stalled because why the fuck would it move? This election proves the dominant political force in one half of the country is led by a man whose platform is ‘This Country Is A Corpse And I Am Its Ghost.’ You can’t negotiate with a ghost who’s also a convicted prick. The only thing growing here is Dodik’s vanity, now so large it doesn’t even need his name on a ballot. He’s turned a legal ban into a martyr complex, and his dipshit supporters treat the conviction like a medal for being the biggest asshole in the room. So let’s review: new tech caused delays, the banned boss still wins, the state is declared dead by its chief gravedigger, and the future is frozen. The only consistent throughput in this system is the flow of sheer, unadulterated bullshit from a man who mastered the art of failing upward into permanent, untouchable irrelevance. What a magnificent, rancid cunt.
