Polls have closed Sunday in Bosnia's general election in which voters chose their new leaders from among the long-established cast of sectarian candidates and their challengers who pledged to eradicate, if elected, corruption and clientelism in government.
Zeljko Komsic of the Democratic Front Party smiles at a news conference where he declared himself the winner of the Croat seat of the tripartite Bosnian Presidency in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Oct. 2, 2022. Polls have closed Sunday in Bosnia’s general election in which voters chose their new leaders from among the long-established cast of sectarian candidates and their challengers who pledged to eradicate, if elected, corruption and clientelism in government.
Bosnia's power-sharing system was agreed upon in a U.S.-sponsored peace deal that ended the brutal 1992-95 war between its three main ethnic groups - Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats - by dividing the country into two highly independent entities. The entities — one run by Serbs and the other shared by Bosniaks and Croats - have broad autonomy but are linked by shared national institutions. All countrywide actions require consensus from all three ethnic groups.
The Sunday election included races for the three members of the shared Bosnian presidency; parliament deputies at the state, entity and regional levels; and the president of the country’s Serb-run part. Analysts predicted the long-entrenched nationalists who have enriched cronies and ignored the needs of the people were likely to remain dominant after the election despite deeply disappointing their constituents, largely because the sectarian post-war system of governance leaves pragmatic, reform-minded Bosnians with little incentive to vote.
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