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Komsic’s statement was completely different in tone and content. He said that the current establishment has allowed him to be there (as president elect) and that they have no reasons to fear. He also said that he is president to all Croats, whatever their votes.
Not surprisingly, Sefik Dzaferovic, the candidate of the main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), also gained the highest support of 37.97% among Bosniak voters, and will replace the party’s leader, Bakir Izetbegovic, in the presidency. Izetbegovic has served two mandates in the post and was not allowed to run for
a third time.
The Dayton Peace accord that ended the 1992- 1995 war established a complex set of institutions, hence the large number of elections taking place on October 7.
Over the years there have been various attempts to alter the balance between the various levels of government, in particular Dodik’s calls for secession from his power base in Republika Srpska.
Meanwhile, preliminary results for the three parliaments more or less repeated those from the last election in 2014. In the state-level and Federation’s parliaments, the SDA won most votes, while in Republika Srpska Dodik’s SNSD gained the highest support.
In the Federation’s parliament SDA has got 25.31% of the votes, followed by HDZ (18.65%), SDP (13.93%), the Democratic Front (8.88%) and the SBB (6.06%).
In Republika Srpska, the SNSD has 39.58%, fol- lowed by several opposition parties that united for the presidency race, but were not in coalition for the parliament — the Party of Democratic Pro- gress (PDP) got 12.31%, the National Democratic Movement (DNS) had 10.16% and the Socialist Party (SP) gained 4.66% support.
In Republika Srpska Dodik’s loyal party ally, Zeljka Cvijanovic (currently the entity’s prime minister) won the race to become the entity’s president
with 47.67% of the votes, ahead of civic-oriented Vukota Govedarica who got 42.63%. The result was based on 78.57% of votes counted by the CIK.
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