The EU Special Representative in BiH, Johann Sattler, urged citizens in the southern city of Mostar, which has not held an election since 2008, to vote on December 20 as part of a campaign organised by a local election watchdog.
The campaign ‘Prvi put biram’ (I choose for the first time), organised by the ‘Coalition for Free and Fair Elections – Pod lupom’ (Under the Magnifying Glass), has the goal to educated, inform and encourage youth to vote in the Mostar election.
Mostar has not held an election for more than a decade due to political bickering between two of the country’s three major ethnic parties over how elections should be organized in the city after the Constitutional Court declared parts of the Election Law for Mostar unconstitutional.
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Only in June this year did the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the Croat Democratic Union in Bosnia (HDZ BiH) reach an agreement on the issue, enabling the election to take place.
The local election everywhere else in Bosnia and Herzegovina took place on November 15.
“Citizens of beautiful Mostar were deprived for more than 12 years of the most basic democratic right – the right to vote. This will change on the 20th of December. This Sunday, 100,000 Mostarians will be able to go out to the polls and elect their local representatives. Be one of them!” Sattler said.
“Don’t underestimate the power of your vote,” he added.
