Bosnian Central Election Commission (CEC) member Vanja Bjelica-Prutina pointed out Thursday that Milorad Dodik won the largest number of votes for the President of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity after the control count.

“This control count is in favour of establishing the factual situation,” said Bjelica-Prutina.

She emphasized that she is talking mostly about the level of the RS Vice President when it comes to control counting.

“Because, one vote can decide the outcome for that level, and that's why I asked for a control count,” she noted.

The report on the recount of votes was adopted at Thursday’s 73rd session.

RS Vice-Presidencs

The Vice-Presidents of the RS are Camil Durakovic from the Bosniak people and Davor Pranjic from the Croat people. 

Even though the CEC said previously that Ivan Begic was the winner, it turned out that Pranjic was in fact elected for this post.

The main counting center in Zetra Hall, in Sarajevo, re-counted the votes from more than 2,000 polling stations for the level of the RS President, during which various irregularities were found in connection with the packaging of materials, lack of stamps and invalid ballots.