In referendums in Bosnia-Hercegovina, losses for the nationalists are becoming apparent.
Moderate Bosniak Social Democrat Denis Becirevic (SPD) is leading the race for a seat on Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidium, preliminary results showed on Monday.
Becirevic, who was supported by 11 opposition parties, received 55.78 percent of the vote, ahead of Bakir Izetbegovic, whose nationalist Bosniak Democratic Action Party (SDA) has been in power since the end of the war in 1996.
Izetbegovic, who, according to the electoral commission, received 39.31 percent of the votes, admitted his defeat that night.
Against the background of the worst political crisis since the end of the war, the almost 3.4 million voters decided, among other things, on presidencies and members of parliament at the national, regional and municipal levels of the complex state structure.
The country consists of the Republic of Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the District of Brcko.