evidence: Croatia has started to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula, designed to connect the Croatian mainland with its exclave and southernmost region, the Dubrovnik–Neretva County in the country’s Dalmatia region. Currently, access to the Croatian exclave from the mainland is only possible through the Bosnian municipality of Neum, which is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s only access to the Adriatic Sea. [...] However, it is only the Bosniak leaders of the country that have expressed their anger. Bosnia’s constitution recognises the country’s ‘three constituent peoples’: the Bosniaks (also called the Bosnian Muslims), the Serbs and the Croats. All three of the ‘constituent peoples’ are represented in the country’s political structures. As Neum’s population is 98 per cent Croat, according to 2013 census data, local politicians and citizens have not expressed their disapproval to Croatia connecting its exclave to its mainland. In fact, Bosnian news portal Klix reported in 2012 that Neum’s mayor, Živko Matuško (an ethnic Croat) of the Croatian Democratic Union party in Bosnia, welcomes the bridge, because it avoids Croatia building a corridor to its exclave that would see Neum split in two. "We are vigorously opposed to the construction of a road that would divide the town. We do not want to live in a ghetto. We do not want to trade with our own territory."