Election Watch – Bosnia-Herzegovina

People are voting in Bosnia-Herzegovina following an election campaign that observers say remained entrenched along ethnic lines. A total of five presidents and 14 prime ministers must be elected in the country’s complex system of government.

Tensions between Bosniaks (Muslims), Serbs and Croats have persisted since the 1992-95 bloody civil war. Bosnia is still split into two entities – the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

The country’s three-member collective presidency – Croat, Bosnian Muslim and Serb – was established as part of the US-brokered 1995 Dayton peace deal that ended the war in which in 100,000 died.

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