Iconic Bosnian City Holds First Local Polls In 12 Years
December 20, 2020 17:28 GMT
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Ballots were cast on December 20 in local elections in Mostar, a historic city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among early voters was Irma Baralija, a local politician who has won a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights against the Bosnian state for failing to hold municipal polls in Mostar. Disputes over the city s power-sharing structure had been stuck in a stalemate since 2008.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Irma Baralija is looking forward to Sunday, when she intends to vote and hopes to win her race as the southern Bosnian city of Mostar holds its first local election in 12 years.
To make that vote possible in her hometown, the 36-year-old Baralija had to sue Bosnia in the European Court of Human Rights for letting a stalemate between two major nationalist political parties prevent her, along about 100,000 other Mostar residents, from voting or running in a municipal election for over a decade.
By winning in court in October 2019, Baralija believes she has “busted the myth (that nationalist parties) have been feeding to us, that an individual cannot move things forward, that we matter only as members of our ethnic groups.”
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