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What are Izetbegović and Čović talking about in Mostar?
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30.12.2020
Čović and Izetbegović: Intensified conversations
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The vote count after the elections in Mostar is coming to an end, and talks on the new government, the mayor and the future of the city on the Neretva are just beginning.
Everyone wants the position of mayor. HDZ, with individually the largest number of won council seats, sees the holder of the list, Mario Kordić, in that position. The Coalition for Mostar , within which the SDA will probably have eight council seats, is pushing Dr. Zlatko Guzin to become the head the city.
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City has been divided on ethnic lines leading to vital services not functioning
The Mostar bridge connecting the two sides of the city, which was destroyed in the 1990s and rebuilt in the early 2000s. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Mostar bridge connecting the two sides of the city, which was destroyed in the 1990s and rebuilt in the early 2000s. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Shaun Walker Central and eastern Europe correspondent
Sun 20 Dec 2020 04.40 EST
First published on Fri 18 Dec 2020 08.57 EST
Polls have opened in the city of Mostar in the first local elections in 12 years following a dispute between parties representing the city’s two main ethnic groups that paralysed municipal institutions for more than a decade.
Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The historic Bosnian town of Mostar, a gem of 15th century Ottoman architecture, has not held an election since 2008. On Sunday it has a chance to shake off years of political paralysis.
Despite drawing millions of tourists, the town is suffocating under uncollected garbage and it still bears the scars of war from the 1990s: local echoes of a similar dysfunction at the national level.
The town of around 100,000 has not held an election for 12 years because its Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks were unable to agree on electoral rules, a row that illustrates the ethnic tensions that brought war to the country three decades ago.