FEDERATION PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON POSTPONEMENT OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIO

ELECTIO $ NS ZAGREB, 27 Aug (Hina) - The President of the Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Kresimir Zubak, commented on the postponement of Bosnia's municipal elections in tonight's central news broadcast on Croatian television. Conditions for the implementation of municipal elections had not been created since the administrative organisation had been taken over from the previous system, and that organisation had not been coordinated with the Washington and Dayton agreements, Zubak said. #L# That was the reason why the Croat side had demanded that new municipalities be organised or that the existing ones be reorganized, but those requests had, on one side, been approved and on the other side ignored, Zubak said. It was obvious that numerous voters had chosen Form P-2, which meant that they wanted to vote in municipalities in which they had not lived before, Zubak said. Those data pointed to the fact that many new voters had registered on voters' lists, he said, adding that similar things had happened in Sarajevo, although they had not been adequately covered in the media. Some 50,000 to 60,000 voters had registered in Sarajevo municipalities, and some 20,000 voters had registered in Tuzla, Zubak said, adding he did not claim that the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) was 'suggesting to those people to register for voting but it is a fact that a huge number of people for whom I am sure that they are Bosniac-Muslims, have decided to vote using Form P-2, which means that they have used their right to make a decision'. One could not say that 'such a choice is completely wrong, since it secures a free choice of future place of residence', Zubak said, adding that the postponement of municipal elections was not a good solution because 'we will face the same problem in two or six months'. (hina) rm 272341 MET aug 96