Final Unaudited Results Of Bosnian Polls Out Tuesday
SARAJEVO (AFP) - The final unaudited results of Bosnia's legislative polls are to be announced Tuesday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement released here Monday.
The last preliminary results published by the OSCE after 98% of the votes had been counted showed a neck-and-neck race between multi-ethnic Social Democrats (SDP) and the nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in the Muslim-Croat federation.
Under the 1995 Dayton peace accords, which ended Bosnia's three-year war, the country is divided into a Muslim-Croat Federation and Bosnian Serb Republika Srspka (RS). Each has its own assembly, with a central parliament made up of delegates from each entity.
In the race for the Muslim-Croat federation, seats in the central parliament the SDP had 27.2% of the votes compared to 27.1% for the SDA.
However, the SDA led the race for the entity's parliament with 26.8% of the votes while the SDP came second with the 26.1%.
In the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country, Mirko Sarovic, presidential candidate of the nationalist Serb Democratic Party (SDS), had garnered 50.3% of the votes for the top post in the RS.
The SDS was ahead in the race for the Bosnian Serb entity's seats in the state parliament with 40.1%.
In the race for the RS' parliament, the SDS was also the leading party with 36.5% of the votes.
