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MOSTAR Preliminary results from the first local election in 12 years in the Bosnian town of Mostar on Sunday showed most votes going to the Croat and Bosniak parties whose rivalry had left the ethnically divided town without a city council since 2012.
The coalition of multi-ethnic moderate parties BH Bloc won enough votes to act as a kingmaker in the future 35-member city council, according to unofficial preliminary results from the parties and election authorities.
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Why Did it Take 12 Years For This Bosnian Town to Hold its Elections? Published December 21st, 2020 - 08:31 GMT
A photo shows deserted streets with scarse passers by in historical core of the Southern-Bosnian town of Mostar, on December 7, 2020. Mostar is the only Bosnian city that has not held local elections in 12 years. Split into Croat and Bosniak zones by the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended Bosnia s war 25 years ago, the town is a symbol of the broken politics that has haunted the Balkan state ever since. With two nationalist parties in power and unable to agree on voting rules, Mostar has not held local elections since 2008. ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP
In Bosnia’s Mostar, ethnic parties win 1st local vote in 12 years
Mostar has not held an election since 2008 because the Croat and Bosniak nationalist HDZ and SDA parties were unable to agree on electoral rules. December 21, 2020 12:04:34 pm
Irma Baralija greets supporters in her headquarters after local election in Mostar, Bosnia, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Preliminary results from the first local election in 12 years in the Bosnian town of Mostar on Sunday showed most votes going to the Croat and Bosniak parties whose rivalry had left the ethnically divided town without a city council since 2012.
The coalition of multi-ethnic moderate parties BH Bloc won enough votes to act as a kingmaker in the future 35-member city council, according to unofficial preliminary results from the parties and election authorities.
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Irma Baralija, candidate for Nasa Stranka (Our Party) political party, reacts at a news conference after the announcement of first results in the local election in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Dec 20, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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MOSTAR: Preliminary results from the first local election in 12 years in the Bosnian town of Mostar on Sunday (Dec 21) showed most votes going to the Croat and Bosniak parties whose rivalry had left the ethnically divided town without a city council since 2012.
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MOSTAR Citizens in Bosnia’s ethnically divided town of Mostar voted for their city councilors on Sunday for the first time in 12 years, after the rival Croat and Bosniak parties that rule the town agreed on long-disputed electoral rules.
The town, in the south of the country, is renowned for its Ottoman-era Old Bridge over the river Neretva, which was destroyed during Bosnia’s war in the 1990s but has since been restored.
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