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SARAJEVO, April 11 (AFP) - Preliminary results from Bosnia's municipal elections released Tuesday showed that while Muslims voters swung behind a multiethnic social democratic party, Serbs and Croats backed nationalists. The partial results were released by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), after counting ballots from almost two-thirds of Bosnia's 146 municipalities. The nationalist Serb Democratic Party (SDS) leads in 34 out of 37 Serb municipalities surveyed by the OSCE. In 53 Muslim-Croat Federation municipalities counted, the multiethnic Social Democratic Party (SDP) – the main opposition party in the Muslim-Croat half of Bosnia – leads in nine municipalities including two out of four of Sarajevo's electoral districts. The results for the major cities with a Muslim majority, in which the SDP has claimed victory, have not been published yet. The Muslim nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA), led by the chairman of Bosnia's tri-partite presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, was leading in 17 municipalities, while the SDA-led coalition was winning in seven municipalities. "The trends in the Muslim-Croat Federation appeared to be shaping up as a very competitive, two-way race between SDA and SDP throughout a majority of municipalities," Tanya Domi, the OSCE spokeswoman, told a press conference. The Croat Democratic Union (HDZ) won in 20 municipalities with Croat majority, without having a serious rival. The SDA, HDZ and SDS were the principal Muslim, Croat and Serb nationalist parties during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
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