PREDSJEDNIK CENTRALNOG KOMITETA SAVEZA KOMUNISTA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE BRANKO MIKULIĆ U HERCEGOVINI I MOSTARU 1970-IH GODINA
BRANKO MIKULIC, PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE LEAGUE OF COMMUNISTS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, IN HERZEGOVINA AND MOSTAR DURING THE 1970S

Summary/Abstract: here is a wide range of issues that Mikulic discussed with the hosts in Mostar and Herzegovina. It is a series of political and economic issues, everyday problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina and even in Yugoslavia during the 1970s. Mikulic has been coming to Herzegovina to clarify the current situation in the Federation and Bosnia and Herzegovina, get acquainted with the situation in Herzegovinian communes, give instructions and lessons to the local leadership and party committees, and similar. Mikulic has often emphasized the importance of relying on the Republic’s strengths and capabilities, more stable economic and social integration of the Republic, the importance of further economic development, dispersion of industrial capacities and the need to resist various inluences of events and processes in neighbouring republics, especially in Croatia. he public speeches of Mikulic and the high republican oicials in Herzegovina were always positively intoned and accentuated the notable turnarounds and achieved successes. his paper devotes special attention to the construction of HPP Salakovac on the Neretva and Mikulic’s eforts to inally get the support of the Mostar leadership for this vital power facility. However, immensely signiicant factors have caused years of discussion about its construction. It relects the current relationship between the centre and the periphery, the republican leadership and the one in the city of Mostar. Concurrently, this situation testiies to the connection between politics and economics, i.e. political decisions in economics. he political leaders have often used economic laws and feasibility studies to justify their own determinations. his case was also evidence of the reform process of the federation, i.e. its decentralization, since the plans and construction during the 1970`s fell within the domain of signiicantly strengthened republican competencies. Furthermore, unsatisfactory inter-republican relations, i.e. disagreement among leaderships of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, undoubtedly caused the long-standing open issue of HPP Buk Bijela, but also HPP Salakovac. Despite the proclaimed will for dialogue and harmonization of opinions, the common interest has utterly lost its force.

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