Bosnia’s Big Parties Maintain Grip Outside Cities in Local Elections – BIRN

BIRN reports:

Amid an ongoing vote count and elections overshadowed by deadly landslides and floods, it was already clear on Monday that no big changes in municipal governance will follow the October 6 local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Milorad Dodik, president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, said the main Bosnian Serb party got “44 per cent of the votes in Republika Srpska”.

The SNSD won 81 per cent of mayoral contests in Republika Srpska, or 51 out of 63 municipalities and towns. They will also have two mayors in the Federation entity.

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