Sarajevo
While the integrity of the state is more threatened than ever, this Sunday, October 2, Bosnians are called to the polls for general elections.
It is in an atmosphere of community divisions, persistently stirred up by politicians, that voters will renew the institutional millefeuille dating from the Dayton peace agreement, signed at the end of 1995.
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It is a question of appointing the leaders of the central power and those of the two entities which make up Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH): the Republika Srpska (RS), composed mainly of Serbs, and the Croat-Muslim Federation.
Three members of the collegiate presidency of the State are to be elected: a Bosnian, a Croat and a Serb, as well as the deputies of the central Parliament, those of the two entities, and those of the ten cantons of the Federation.
"Third entity"
The election is being held despite secessionist threats from the RS and its current president, the Russophile Milorad Dodik (SNSD), who assures that BiH
“is not the place where Serbs…
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