Mocking Video Game Leaves Bosnian Party Fuming

Bosnians have found a new way to pay back politicians who do not deliver on their extravagant promises - make fun of them on video games.

After one game featuring the senior Bosniak politician Bakir Izetbegovic drew angry reactions from his Party of Democratic Action, SDA, on Monday, a new game featuring another prominent Bosniak politician, Fahrudin Radoncic, leader of the Alliance for Better Future of Bosnia, popped up.

Bosnia is gearing up for general elections in the autumn, and a number of anonymous people have turned to video games to show their creative approach to Bosnia's unresolved problems and remind people of politicians' oft-broken pre-election promises.

The first game, El Bake, features a character with the face of Izetbegovic and was supposedly created for the 100,000 people that the politician promised to find a job for in October 2014.

The aim of the game player is to help to El Bake to collect more money, through different levels named after Bosnian towns and avoiding different obstacles, such as street protests, police cars and bumpy Bosnian roads.

Many Bosnians on social networks have been expressing support to those who created the games.

Mass protests in Sarajevo in February 2014, as well as recent protests by war veterans, have marked Izetbegovic's time in power. As well as heading the SDA, he sits as the Bosniak member of Bosnia's three-man state presidency.

Meanwhile, Flappy Fahro has a character with the face of Fahrudin Radoncic, who heads the Alliance for a Better Future which is part of the ruling coalition with SDA but often behaves as it is opposition.

SDA suppoers are unamused. "This just shows how weak are political opponents are, since they do have nothing to offer and just use...

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