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Nationalists win vote in Bosnia s divided Mostar Listen | Print By AFP
Dec 21, 2020 in World Nationalist parties have won a weekend election in Mostar, the Bosnian city that symbolises the communal splits and broken politics that have haunted the country since the 1990s war. Sunday s vote was the first local election in 12 years in Mostar, which remains divided on ethnic lines between predominately Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks. The main Croat party the HDZ won in the city s Croat zones and was also leading across Mostar, with more than 37 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results announced by the electoral commission on Monday. ....
Bosnian city of Mostar holds 1st local election in 12 years A couple walks in the center of Old City of Mostar, Bosnia, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020. Divided between Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats, who fought fiercely for control over the city during the 1990s conflict, Mostar has not held a local poll since 2008, when Bosnia s constitutional court declared its election rules to be discriminatory and ordered that they be changed. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic) December 20, 2020 - 6:14 PM MOSTAR, Bosnia - Long-entrenched ethno-nationalists were projected to win the first local election in Bosniaâs southern city of Mostar in 12 years, but early results of Sunday s vote also indicated multiethnic parties and alliances would be a strong part of the future city council. ....
MOSTAR, Bosnia Polls opened Sunday in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar for the first local election in over a decade in a city famed for its picturesque Ottoman architecture and its deep ethnic divisions. Split between Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats, who fought fiercely for control over the city during the country’s 1992-95 […] ....
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. ....
Article content 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. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Bosnia s divided town of Mostar holds first local vote in 12 years Back to video ....