ELECTION RALLIES IN BH PASS WITH EVER LESS INCIDENTS

SARAJEVO, August 27 (Hina) - Voting among Bosnian refugees in Hungary, settled in five refugee camps, ended successfully, with an almost 100 per cent electoral turnout, spokeswoman for the Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Sarajevo, Agota Cuperman, said on Tuesday. There had been only smaller irregularities during voting of Bosnian citizens in Turkey, said Cuperman, adding that voting in Hungary and Turkey was organized earlier due to technical reasons. State bodies in charge of organizing elections in Hungary and Turkey had allegedly printed notices on voting earlier and did not want to change dates, even though the Provisional Election Commission decided that voting among refugees should begin on 28 August. U.N. spokesman Aleksandar Ivanko told a press conference today that eleven election rallies, organized mainly in the region of Bosanska Krajina and western Bosnia in the past week, gathered several thousand people and passed with no incidents. The pre-electoral atmosphere had improved in the Cazin area, western Bosnia, as well, Ivanko said, where, after a new local police chief took office, there had been no new attacks on members and sympathizers of opposition parties. (hina) ha 271345 MET aug 96