Milorad Dodik, Bosnia’s Presidency candidate from the Republika Srpska (RS) entity who won the most votes for this post, from the RS said last night he plans to meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic before meeting with his colleagues.
“I already spoke with Vucic and I’ll meet with him, first. As far as my opponent is concerned, not even all the Muslim votes from abroad (meaning the votes from displaced Bosniaks) will help him,” Dodik said, adding that he will be the first Presidency member to bring the flag of the RS into the Presidency building.
According to Bosnia’s constitution, citizens from the Serb dominated entity can only vote for the Presidency candidate from among the Serb people, while the citizens living in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) can vote for candidates from among the Bosniak and Croat peoples.
This means that Serbs from the FBiH cannot vote for Serb candidates, nor can Bosniaks and Croats from the RS vote for Bosniak and Croat candidates. Thus they are forced to vote only for the candidates running in their entities.
Dodik added that not even the British informants who came to the RS to destabilise this entity could help Ivanic.
He noted that he won some 70,500 votes more than his opponent, Mladen ivanic, and that based on 85 percent of the counted votes, he won 330,890 votes, while Ivanic won 260,197 votes.
According to the first preliminary results from Bosnia’s Central Election Commission, candidates of the Democratic Action Party (SDA), the Democratic Front (DF) and the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) are leading in the run for Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, after the Sunday general election in Bosnia.
SDA’s Sefik Dzaferovic, who ran for the post of Bosnia’s Presidency member from among the Bosniak people, won 37.97 percent of votes, DF’s Zeljko Komsic who ran for the post of Bosnia’s Presidency member from among the Croat people won 49.47 percent of votes, while the SNSD’s Milorad Dodik who ran for the post of Bosnia’s Presidency member from among the Serb people won 55.15 percent of votes.
