MOSTAR, May 4 (Hina) - EU Administrator for Mostar, Ricardo Perez Casado, confirmed that elections in Mostar are to take place on May 31. At Saturday's news conference he said that the Croat and Moslem sides agreed on the necessity
of holding elections and in the envisaged period.
MOSTAR, May 4 (Hina) - EU Administrator for Mostar, Ricardo Perez
Casado, confirmed that elections in Mostar are to take place on May
31.
At Saturday's news conference he said that the Croat and
Moslem sides agreed on the necessity of holding elections and in
the envisaged period. #L#
Asked whether refugees and displaced persons from Mostar could
vote by post, Casado said that it could bring on some technical and
practical difficulties.
He said that the suggestion had been forwarded to members of
the EU presidency, Luigi Ferraris and Alfredo Matacotta.
"They will forward the suggestion to EU member countries which
will then answer," Casado said.
The Dayton Agreement did not envizage elections by post,
Casado said, adding that agreements had to be respected.
Legal advisor at the EU Administration for Mostar Hans
Birchler said that he did not know of any such case in Europe,
adding that estimates were that some 25,000 people were to vote in
the elections.
Some 60,000 people lived in Mostar, half of whom were refugees
from other areas who had not lived in the town before the war,
Birchler said.
He said that Mostar had an electorate of some 100,000 people
on the 1991 census.
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