Bosnian politicians used this practice to reaffirm their political opposition to Serbian nationalist tendencies and in particular opposition to the politics of Slobodan Milošević who was trying to revert the constitutional amendments of the 1970s that awarded the Bosniaks the status of a constituent ethnicity.
Os políticos bosníacos empregaron esta práctica para reafirmar a súa oposición política ás tendencias nacionalistas dos serbios e, en particular, a oposición á política de Slobodan Milošević que trataba de reverter as reformas constitucionais de 1970 que adxudicaran aos bosníacos o rango de etnia constituínte.