Bosnia Parties Broke Promises, Survey Shows

A survey by the Istinomjer project, tasked with checking the truthfulness of the promises made by Bosnia's key political parties, said they fulfilled only 48 of 1,941 promises that they made in their election or post-election programmes.

The project focused on the promises of 11 parties and one coalition in the past four year. It determined that 33 promises were mostly fulfilled, 143 were partly fulfilled, 273 were barely fulfilled while all the others were abandoned.

"There are no significant differences between the parties... when it comes to fulfilling promises and approaches to their programmes," Tijana Cvjeticanin, of the non-governmental organization Zasto ne, which led the project, said.

"If we compare this survey to one from the previous governmental term, the result is worse by 2 per cent," she added. "This is clear proof of how very low the level of political responsibility is."

Bosnia and Herzegovina has several levels of government. The state-level of government includes the central government in a form of Council of Ministers and a two-chamber parliament.

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