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The October elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina may be the last elections at which the decision will be made on whether there will be Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the future, Sarajevo Auxiliary Bishop Pero Sudar told a news conference in Zagreb on Friday.
Sudar urged the Croatian authorities to give clear and unequivocal guarantees to Croat settlers from Bosnia-Herzegovina that their registration for voting in the elections in Bosnia would not eliminate any of their acquired rights in the Republic of Croatia.
Your turnout at the elections does not question whether you would like to stay in Croatia or return to Bosnia, but your voting in the elections will help those who have remained in Bosnia and those who are planning to return there, Sudar said, explaining that a considerable turnout of Croats at the Bosnian elections would help them to retain the role of political protagonists in Bosnia.
In case of a poor turnout, political decision-making and public duties will be performed by individuals and groups who do not care about common interests, the dignitary said.
According to some unofficial estimates, two thirds of Croats who left Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war in the first half of the 1990s have settled in Croatia.
The commissions noted that voting could be done by post.
They also warn that losing the Croat political and ethnic subjectivity in Bosnia-Herzegovina could trigger off the collapse of country, which could eventually lead to a new war due to "the interests of big and powerful actors."