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HDZ BiH, SDP, SDA and SNSD ahead in vote count in Bosnian general elections

Autor: mses
SARAJEVO, Oct 4 (Hina) - Zeljko Komsic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Nebojsa Radmanovic retained the lead in the race for the Croat, Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Serb members of the tripartite presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Central Election Commission (SIP) reported on Monday morning, after the processing of 90 percent of ballots cast for general elections, held on Sunday.

The victory of Komsic, a Social Democratic Party (SDP) official, was most convincing as he mustered nearly 61 percent. The other two main rivals for the Croat seat in the presidency -- Borjana Kristo of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH) and Martin Raguz of the HDZ 1990 -- gained 20 percent and 11 percent of the vote respectively in the Croat electorate.

Kristo and Raguz expressed disappointment claiming that Bosniak voters who supported Komsic had decided on the election of the Croat member in the state leadership.

Komsic, who is also the current Croat representative in the presidency, thanked all who had voted for his re-election, pledging to work also in interest of those who did not cast their ballots for him.

Bakir Izetbegovic of the (Bosniak) Party for Democratic Action (SDA), established by his late father Alija Izetbegovic, won 35 percent of ballots for the Bosniak member of the presidency.

Media taycoon Fahrudin Radoncic finished as second with 30.7 percent. The incumbent Bosniak representative in the presidency, Haris Siljadzic, who leads the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH), ranked third with less than 25 percent of the vote.

Silajdzic was the first politician to admit his defeat in the night after the elections.

Congratulating Izetbegovic on the victory, Silajdzic said in early Monday morning that he expected the new authorities to work on strengthening the unity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Radoncic said that despite his defeat in the presidential race, it was important for him that his party -- the Alliance for Better Future (SBB) -- fared well in the voting.

Radoncic called on the Central Election Commission to establish why only in the Croat-Bosniak entity (the federation) as many as 60,000 ballots in the presidential election were invalid.

As regards the Serb member in the country's presidency, the incumbent representative Nebojsa Radmanovic mustered 50 percent of the vote, and his rival Mladen Ivanic was supported by 47 percent of Serb voters.

Ivanic admitted the defeat, but expressed concern over more than 41,000 invalid ballots in the Serb entity which he believed might indicate irregularities in the voting process.

SIP official Suad Arnautovic said that the invalid ballots accounted for 13 percent of ballots cast for the Serb representative, which he said was a really serious problem.

The processing of between 41 percent and 61 percent of returns from polling stations in the election for law-making bodies at the state, entity and cantonal levels shows that the HDZ BiH was the winner in the Croat part of the electorate.

Bosniak voters placed most confidence in the SDP and in the SDA. Radoncic's SBB appeared to be the third strongest party in this part of the electorate, pushing behind Silajdzic's SBiH.

In the Bosnian Serb entity, the Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) led by the current prime minister Milorad Dodik won the highest number of ballots. Dodik ran in the race of the entity's president and is in a strong lead with 53 percent of the vote.

This entity has two vice presidents, one of them representing the Croat people and the other one the Bosniaks. Ivo Kamenjasevic of the HDZ BiH is likely to win the post of the Croat vice president, and Muharem Murselovic of SBiH is likely to step into office of the Bosniak vice president.

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