BOSNIA'S HDZ PARTY OPPOSES ELECTION RESULTS

MOSTAR, Oct 20 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia- Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) has opposed the results of a recent general election in the country as announced on Saturday, claiming they do not reflect the voters' choice as expressed in the October 5 vote. #L# All more important parties in both Bosnian entities, with the exception of the Social Democrats, have said they will file complaints contesting the regularity of so-called "compensation mandates", which were allocated to parties regardless of the election threshold of three percent. "These are not the actual election results. These are compensation results because the losers' results are being improved with compensation mandates," said Veso vegar, spokesman for a coalition headed by the HDZ. At the time when there was no election threshold 17 political parties had seats in the parliament of the Croat-Muslim entity. With this year's introduction of a 3% threshold, one more party managed to win seats in the lower house of the entity parliament. Vegar said the coalition would file a complaint with the state Appeals Court. (hina) rml