Zukorlic Promises Water Project for Sandzak in Priboj

Usame Zukorlic, head of the Usame Zukorlic (SPP) - Movement for Unification list, spent September 28 in Priboj and said he would put water supply for all municipalities in Sandzak into his program for the Government of the Republic of Serbia. According to a statement from the list, he talked with residents about local problems and ended the visit with a meeting at the offices of the Justice and Reconciliation Party, where the next activities and fieldwork were discussed.

During the day he visited:

• the village of Zivinice, where he talked with residents about their problems and ways to solve them
• Stari Grad, Soliter and Citluk
• Sandzacka Street, Ive Lole Ribara Street, Detacki Put and Omladinskih Radnih Brigada Street

Why is water the first item in the program?

Zukorlic singled out water supply as a problem in many parts of Sandzak and named entering the government as the way to solve it. He said in Priboj:

“I am preparing a program for the Government of the Republic of Serbia, where we will ask for water, a basic human and minority right. Wherever I go, the problem is water. We want to enter the Government so that we can solve these problems, and in the Government my goal is to propose a project that will deal with water in all the municipalities of our region.”

Zukorlic ties the project proposal to the list entering the government, which will be decided at the elections on October 25.

One project in the village, one in the city

On how investment should be split, Zukorlic proposed dividing it evenly between villages and cities:

“As for our policy, we have taken a clear position, and that is one project in the village and one project in the town. So, half and half, because both the village and the town need to be preserved. If our villages die out, the town will be no safer.”

At the same event he announced a program for young people. “We are focused on two points. The first point is unification, the second point is results,” he said, adding that the program will be presented soon and will have ten points, along with a promise that young people will stay and live in Priboj if the list enters the government. He also explained the goal: “We want to unite our people so that we achieve results, so that our young people have somewhere to stay.”

A call to unite Bosniaks

Zukorlic singled out political unification of Bosniaks as one of the main messages of the visit. In Priboj he asserted that the 20 percent of Bosniaks “nema luksuz da bude u pet izbornih listi”. According to the list’s statement, he also said:

“To change things, unification is needed, so that we can all change things together. We are not small, I do not accept that story. We are not small at all. We can even end up in a situation, if we are wise in these hard times, to be the deciding vote and determine the outcome of the vote, where decisions in the Government could not be made without us, and then to use that and solve all our problems.”

Zukorlic’s list is number 6 on the ballot, has 181 candidates and was submitted with 6,182 certified statements of support. The elections are scheduled for October 25. His appearance in Priboj on September 28 also appeared in RTS’s roundup of campaign activities, among the appearances of other lists that day.

The statements are taken from the list’s press release, and no responses from other lists to Zukorlic’s call are available in the sources.