OSCE CONFIRMS ELECTION RESULTS FOR BOSNIAN SERB PARLIAMENT

( Editorial: --> 7977 ) SARAJEVO, 12 Dec (Hina) - The Provisional Election Commission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Tuesday declared election results for the Republika Srpska Assembly official and final. Temporary election results were published at the end of last week. A statement, issued by the OSCE Mission headquarters in Sarajevo, said that the Election Sub-Commission for Complaints had considered all complaints concerning election results which arrived within the prescribed deadline and estimated them as unfounded. After that, the Provisional Election Commission decided to confirm the earlier published temporary results. According to the official election results, the Serb Democratic Party, which earlier had absolute majority in the Bosnian Serb parliament, won only 24 out of 93 seats. The Coalition for a United and Democratic Bosnia-Herzegovina, led by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), will have 16 representatives. The Serb People's Alliance, led by Biljana Plavsic and the Serb Radical Party will have 15 seats each. The Socialist Party of Republika Srpska will have nine representatives, while the Social-Democratic Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina and the Party of Independent Social-Democrats of Republika Srpska will have two representatives each in the new Bosnian Serb parliament. (hina) jn rm 122027 MET dec 97