Serb and Croat ultra-nationalist parties will have a majority in the Bosnian government

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The polling stations in

closed this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. after 12 hours of voting in the

, in which the public representatives of the central institutions and their two autonomous entities, the

, were elected. and the

A total of

were called to the polls in the most important elections since the end of the war, with the

due to the continuous

made by the Serb leaders of the Republika Srpska and with the suspicion change in the electoral law to benefit the Bosnian Croats.

Some 7,257 candidates have participated in the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized in 127 political entities, including

Election day had some setbacks.

One of the polling stations in the capital,

was closed for two hours due to the sudden death of an elderly woman who was waiting her turn to exercise the right to vote, so it will be allowed to remain open to make up for lost time. .

In another polling station near the town of

in the Republika Srpska, it had to be closed after five people were arrested for allegedly inserting pre-filled ballots in favor of one of the options, for which the election has been ordered to be repeated.

The FENA news agency reported that according to the

of the Security Forces,

observer ,

he was attacked by a man who hit him on the head several times.

This incident occurred at a polling station in the city of

in the Republika Srspka.

No further information has been released in this regard or the motivation for committing the attack.

The Central Electoral Commission offered around 10 pm on Sunday that the turnout has been around 50%.

Comparing the data with the 2018 elections, 4% fewer Bosnian citizens did not vote in the elections held this Sunday.

Putin's friends party wins

Although the

and will take a few days to be known

as the polls in the Republika Srspka already predicted, the current president of the Serbobonians and candidate of the Serbian nationalist and secessionist party SNSD,

will be the new Serbian representative in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cvijanovic has achieved 51.65% of the votes with more than 120,000 votes, ahead of his main rival

from the social democratic party

who has obtained 36.94% with almost 87,000 votes.

Zeljka Cvijanovic, becomes one of the two women who will hold the rank of president of Bosnia and Herzegovina together with the Croatian ultra-nationalist from the

who has won the elections and will be the representative of the Croats in the rotating tri-ethnic presidency of the Balkan country.

Krsto obtained 51.36%, beating the candidate of the centrist and multi-ethnic

with 48.64%.

On the Bosnian side, the candidate of the coalition of united opposition parties,

has prevailed over the historic leader who held the presidency of Bosnia for two terms,

obtaining 55.78% against 39.31% recorded by the veteran Bosnian politician.

Izetbegovic is considered a moderate Muslim nationalist politician who is always willing to dialogue with Croatian and Serb representatives to overcome the estrangement between the two political entities that make up the country: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosniaks and Croats coexist) and the Republika Srpska ( composed mostly of Bosnian Serbs).

The leader of the Serbs,

will most certainly be the new president of the Republika Srpska.

's Dodik

got 235,692 votes, while

got 209,160.

The Bosnian Electoral Commission, at the time of making this information, has not confirmed Dodik as the winner of the elections.

Dodik advocates the separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be annexed to Serbia.

The presence of ultranationalist formations in the executive councils of the Bosnian state revives the ghost of the conflict in the troubled Balkan region.

The Croatian and Serb nationalist radicals will have to share a government with the Bosnians and will need constructive political dialogue to govern a country that does not need incendiary politics within democratic institutions.

The international community, through OSCE observers, has been monitoring the development of election day.

It is expected that the high representatives of the European body will appear on Monday afternoon to assess the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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