Fahrudin Radončić, president of the Alliance for a Better Future and former Minister of Security of B&H, wrote a post on his Facebook profile about procurement of vaccines.

You can read his full post below:

After six months of inadmissible delay, the Government of FB&H yesterday, unanimously, made a decision on the urgent procurement of 500,000 doses of vaccine "Sputnik V".

Masks have fallen.

The first question is why the Government of FB&H did not do this on its own initiative a few months ago?

The second question is why Novalić lazily waited for the FB&H Parliament - on the alarming proposal of SBB MP prof. Dr. Kacila - practically ordered the urgent formation of the Ad Hoc Commission, which within 24 hours, without any difficulties, operatively invited the bidders, ie domestic wholesalers to apply for the purchase of larger quantities of vaccines.

Couldn't the FB&H Government have done that on its own a long time ago?

It has all the competencies and its institutions to do what Novalić did for the weekend, with a big and inadmissible delay - he sent Letters of Intent to about twenty addresses?

Secondly, how will the SDA leadership and their followers now be able to convince someone that vaccines could not be procured, because this is supposedly prevented by the Law on Public Procurement "whose amendments have not been adopted"

Yesterday's unanimous decision of the FB&H Government unequivocally confirmed that the mentioned Law was not an obstacle at all.

We can only pray to Dear God that the planned contingent of 500,000 vaccines arrives within the promised deadline.

Thus, the Federation of B&H, but also the Bosniaks, would finally cease to be the only area in Europe (and much wider), where the authorities have not yet enabled their people to even start mass immunization.

Did we have to wait for such a large number of deaths and new cases for Mr. Novalić to come out of the respiratory nightmare and only under the pressure of the FB&H Parliament technically announce and solve, practically, the most ordinary tender?

Thousands of them are completed in the public and private sectors every year, without any problems?

Families of those who died unnecessarily and those who are about to die (because it will take at least a month or two to feel the positive results of mass immunization), and thousands of those who will unnecessarily ger over coronavirus and have lasting health consequences, our people has the right to be very dissatisfied and angry.

Especially if it turns out to be true that the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow, at the end of January, officially sent a letter and contact to Minister Turković for direct, much cheaper and more timely procurement of one million doses of "Sputnik V".