Satisfied with the co-operation with the private TV “Alternativna televizija” and the seriousness of its journalist, Mr Vedran Skoro, the presenter of the talk shows, places into the preparation and realization of such TV shows, the planned TV show was again realized with this television.
In addition, it is note-worthy that the programme of this television is very popular in the Banja Luka region and even wider, since this television is a member of a TV network (Mreza plus) consisted of five TV stations from whole BiH. The FTC team spent the night before in Prijedor (around 80 km from Banja Luka) and noticed that the programme of “Aletrnativna televizija” had the attention of the guests in the hotel.
For TV show, FTC and Mr Skoro invited and provided the participation of the following guests:
- Mr Martin Raguz (HDZ 1990, MP)
- Mr Dragan Cavic (Demokratska partija RS)
- Mr Adil Osmanovic (SDA, the vice-president of the National Assembly of RS)
- Mr Zeljko Marjanic (SNSD, the representative in the National Assembly of RS) and
- Mr Vehid Sehic (the FTC president).
The presenter of the TV show, Mr Skoro, started the show with several questions:
- Is the agreement on constitutional changes in BiH possible without the international community?
- What is the minimum acceptable for all political parties?
- Who will pay the price of the political crisis in BiH?
As it is often case in the TV shows of this type, there was a yes or no question for the audience – Is the OHR still needed in BiH? with the phone numbers of three telecom providers in BiH, since the programme of this television is visible at the whole territory of BiH via the Mreza Plus.

After presentation of the guests, the TV show started with the mini-poll about the constitutional changes in BiH, which was realised in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. The results of the mini-poll showed the high level of distrust of the citizens towards the changes in BiH. Citizens said that such situation in the country is satisfactory for the political leaders and that they neither want nor will implement any changes. On the other hand, the politicians gave statements in accordance with the attitudes of their political parties: Sulejman Tihic (SDA) believes that if the OHR leaves, there might be new conflict in BiH; Mladen Ivanic (PDP) believes that the Constitution should be changed only in the part that regulates the number of MPs; Dragan Covic (HDZ) believes that the Croats should get their (the third) entity. These statements showed that politicians, in position or opposition, are contradictory and without minimal possibilities for finding a compromise solution.
The discussion in the TV show was very live, but still correct one. Besides Mr Sehic who promoted the attitudes of the Working group and emphasised the necessity of the constitutional changes, all other participants promoted the attitudes of their political parties regarding constitutional changes, but also regarding the closing of the OHR.
Namely, political parties from RS, no matter if they are position or opposition, emphasise that the constitutional changes are not the foundation for solution of the crisis in BiH and progress of the country on its way towards the European Union, pointing out that the issue of the NATO memberships is not solved also. However, they totally agree that the OHR is becoming the obstacle of BiH development and they advocate for its closing.
Contrary to this attitude, the representatives of the political parties from F BiH insisted on constitutional changes and extension of the OHR mandate due to the existing crisis in BiH.
After all presented attitudes, FTC concluded that the leading politicians, the carriers of the legislative and executive authorities, simply cannot and do not want to implement the process of systematic changes in BiH. Furthermore, FTC also concluded that opposition parties – SDP in F BiH and PDP in RS, are not capable of taking over this process and its implementation.
Regarding to yes or no question, the results at the end of the TV show showed that 20% of the citizens who participated in voting believes that the OHR should stay, while 80% of them believes that the OHR should be closed down. The attitudes of the citizens from Banja Luka, Prijedor, Laktasi, Derventa, Tesanj, Teslic, etc. who directly contacted the TV show were that they do not believe that politicians would make any changes. Their opinion regarding the OHR were divided, in accordance with the political influences of the parties they support.
The most important thing for us as the project carrier is that such excellent TV show, where contradictory attitudes of the politicians could be heard, but also the attitudes of the civil society, was available to the wide audience as something to think about.