BH ELECTION BALLOTS WILL CARRY 83 PARTIES & INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES

( Editorial: --> 6704 ) SARAJEVO, July 9 (Hina) - Lots were drawn on Thursday for the order political parties and independent candidates will have on ballots at this September's election in Bosnia. The lot-drawing was done at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe mission headquarters in Sarajevo. Voters who show up at polling stations on September 12 and 13 will be given ballots containing the names of 83 parties or coalitions and independent candidates. Today's lot-drawing determined that the Serb People's Alliance, headed by Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, is the first on the ballots, followed by the Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina. The Coalition for Independent and Democratic BH, headed by the Muslim Party of Democratic Action, is 17th on the ballots, the Social Democratic Party of BH is 27th, and the Croatian Democratic Union of BH is 63rd. The coalition of the New Croat Initiative and the Croatian Christian Democratic Union is 68th. (hina) ha jn 091821 MET jul 98