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E $ LECTIONS SARAJEVO, Sept 11 (Hina) - Cardinals and bishops of Bosnia- Herzegovina on Wednesday called Bosnian Catholic citizens to vote at the Bosnian elections on 14 September without fail, and to influence the formation of local authorities in those municipalities where they had lived before the war. "Let your vote go towards the candidate who is truly fighting against ethnic cleansing or so-called humane resettlement, because of which many of us have become homeless people abroad and among our own people, despite our native soil, the native land of our shrines and fathers' graves, because a faithful cannot give his vote in support of this... By voting for representatives in those municipalities where you came from, you are confirming your right to return," Cardinal Vinko Puljic, bishops Franjo Komarica, Ratko Peric and Pero Sudar said in a letter. "We especially want to draw the attention of politicians and reporters not to maltreat the feelings of religion. The mentality and wish for creating some sort of 'national Church', an idea which has recently been permeating our public, has to remain foreign to the Catholic Croat," the letter said. (hina) lm jn 111532 MET sep 96