As Vukanović stated, the meeting did not discuss a candidate for the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He noted that he did not expect support from Trivić or the Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, citing numerous reasons for this.
"Because I know there is personal animosity, because I have remained everything they are not but wish to be—free and I have never made a pact with the devil—but they also cannot, because of Vučić, even if they wanted to, I knew I could not expect support from them," he wrote.
He emphasized that he advocated for the candidacy of Branko Blanuša for the position of President of the Republika Srpska, who lost to Siniša Karan in early elections earlier this year.
"I detailed the arguments for why we believe Branko Blanuša, as the president of the largest opposition party, should be the joint opposition candidate for President of the Republika Srpska, that we should all sincerely support him, and that Draško Stanivuković cannot be a candidate because he is unreliable, in coalition with the SNSD, and has a secret agreement with Dodik. If he were to succeed, he would call for Serbian unity and form a government with Igor Dodik, whom he plans to appoint as prime minister, along with Nenad Stevandić and Goran Selak, which would represent a betrayal of the citizens of the Republika Srpska and the opposition," Vukanović wrote.
In addition to Blanuša's candidacy, he claims to have offered a plan for how the division of entity and state-level government should look in the event of opposition parties' victory.
"I asked Jelena and Draško to support my proposal and stand behind Blanuša, and after the elections, to have priority in appointing the mandate holder, depending on who has more representatives, while the other would propose the Minister of Finance or another ministry, and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the new government, no party would have more than four to five ministers, and eight is the majority for decision-making. Thus, all key issues would have to be negotiated, and it is easy to agree on a platform that includes the rule of law, the fight against corruption and crime, lustration, asset origin verification, and unblocking the European integration process," he added.
However, as Vukanović highlights, a conflict arose with Jelena Trivić.
"And while Draško remained silent, Trivić did not want to stand behind Blanuša and support him, demanding a promise of the prime ministerial position. I tried to explain to her that she had guarantees she would be in the game and, regardless, would receive a position certainly far beyond the capacity of the People's Front. Four years ago, no one asked her, as a candidate, for any position or guarantees, and we sincerely supported her. If I were to be unfair, I would say she should fight against corruption, as she did to me when explaining why I could not be the Minister of Police, allegedly because I lacked experience, even though no one had asked or demanded anything from her before," Vukanović claims on his blog.
The conflict continued when, as he noted, Trivić accused Vukanović of lying in front of other actors.
"She told me in front of everyone that I was lying, which is incredible audacity, because everyone knows how much she crawled after me to forgive and support her. I told her that (Branislav) Borenović and Milan Miličević could confirm this, and that she would regret the disrespect because she is extremely unfair. I sincerely supported her, refused Draško Stanivuković's offer of 200,000 marks to help me with the campaign but to stay silent and not interfere between him and Jelena, not to support her, which I refused. Just as I refused to split the PDP when Draško Stanivuković offered to have his team on my list, but I did not want to, even though I would have had twice as many representatives, thus more budget revenue, been stronger than the PDP, and possibly had two representatives in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina and delegates in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina," Vukanović wrote.
At the end of the post, he said this was a "great betrayal" by Jelena Trivić and that, with her affirmative stance, Stanivuković would be "forced to withdraw."