An independent lawmaker in the assembly of the Sarajevo Canton, Damir Niksic, told N1 on Wednesday that votes in the assembly are being sold and that he has figured out how - it is done slowly, not at once.

“It’s not done explicitly,” he said, adding that he wondered for a long time how the alleged trade with votes was being done.

“Nobody has ever approached me with a suitcase with half a million, a million or a million and a half in it. What’s a million if you will gain power thanks to it,” he said.

The procedure is completely different, he said.

“You sacrifice yourself for a politician, you do something for him, maybe you sit in jail for a while, but they do not pay you right away,” Niksic said.

“They find you a job, there are various options, and then for years you earn 15,000 (Bosnian Marks) a month and once you have earned a million, they say, we gave it to you,” he said.

“I thought you get a million and a half and then you get a vacation in Hawaii…” he said jokingly, adding that “time will tell who will be taken care of and how.”