Bosnia: Divided city of Mostar holds first local vote in over a decade
Voters in Bosnia s Mostar headed to local polls for the first time since 2008 after Croat and Bosniak politicians finally settled a row over election rules. Smaller parties may act as tiebreakers, early results show.
The town in southern Bosnia is known for its Ottoman-era bridge
Preliminary results from Mostar s first local election in 12 years showed that rival ethno-nationalist parties won most of the votes.
However, multiethnic moderate parties and alliances were also projected to win enough support to act as a kingmaker in the future 35-member city council.
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Polls have closed in Bosnia-Herzegovina s ethnically divided southern city of Mostar is holding its first local elections in 12 years on December 20, amid concerns that a surge in coronavirus infections would keep many voters away.
Thirty-five city councilors will be elected under the city s new election rules. Those city councilors will then vote to determine Mostar s next mayor by a two-thirds majority vote.
Polling stations closed at 7 p.m. local time. Preliminary results are expected around midnight. The Central Election Commission said about 40 percent of the eligible voters had turned out by 4 p.m.,
The number of coronavirus cases and related deaths in Bosnia-Herzegovina have been
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Croatian voters continue to be divided ideologically and not according to economic and social criteria, and the most important indicator of their behaviour is their religiosity and attitude towards the past, according to research conducted on 1,000 people from across the country for over several years by the Zagreb Faculty of Political Science.
Voters of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party and of the centre-left, led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), are mostly divided on views of the past and the level of religiosity, while the right-wing Homeland Movement follows in the footsteps of newly-formed parties whose values are not so clearly defined and who attract younger voters and citizens with similar views to those of non-voters, the research found.