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	Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina elects on national level the presidency and a legislature.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (284 words)

	Rule of Law Through Technology : Level 4 Page
		Any citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina aged 18 or older whose name appears on the 1991 census for Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be eligible, in accordance with electoral rules and regulations, to vote.
		The exercise of a refugee's right to vote shall be interpreted as confirmation of his or her intention to return to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		By Election Day, the return of refugees should already be underway, thus allowing many to participate in person in elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	pbosnia.kentlaw.edu /resources/legal/dayton/annex3.htm (957 words)

	Observation of elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (12 – 13 September 1998)
		In the case of the elections for the Federal Presidency, and the President and Vice-President of Republika Srpska, the voting was by simple majority, while the national, entity and cantonal assemblies were elected by proportional representation.
		It should be noted that the political climate before the elections was marked by an increase in coalitions (for example Koalicia, SLOGA), by a slight increase in the forces opposing the established parties, a weakening of the monopolisation of the media by the authorities and growing political awareness on the part of the electors.
		STRASBOURG, 14.09.98 – The general elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 and 13 September 1998 are an important milestone on the way to the accession of this country to the COUNCIL OF EUROPE, declared today Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Head of observers delegation, Hanne SEVERINSEN (Denmark, LDR).
	assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc98/EDOC8216.htm (2955 words)

	Islam in Bosnia & Herzegovina
		The Congress of Berlin Agreement further stipulated that the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina were guaranteed the freedom to practice their religion and the freedom to conduct their own religious affairs.
		This was evidenced by the outcome of the October 1990 elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina which were swept by PDA and the subsequent election of Aliia Izetbejovic as the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The Muslims insist that the territorial and political integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina remain intact and undivided irrespective of the new model of Yugoslavia that eventually emerges.
	members.tripod.com /worldupdates/islamintheworld/id23.htm (4213 words)

	CNN - Bosnian elections delayed over fraud charges - August 27, 1996
		Bosnia Serbs reacted angrily to Frowick's decision and vowed to proceed with the municipal elections, which had been scheduled to coincide with the national balloting.
		Under election rules established by the OSCE, all Bosnians, including refugees, have the right to cast ballots in the towns where the presently live, where they hope to live in the future, or where they were living in 1991, before the war.
		Elections were meant to be a vehicle for IFOR to begin withdrawing for Bosnia.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9608/27/bosnia.elections (624 words)

	[14 Nov 2000] SC/6950 : SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFED BY UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING ON SITUATION IN BOSNIA AND ...
		While the international community had hoped that the elections held on 11 November in Bosnia and Herzegovina would facilitate a change to more moderate governance, it appeared that the nationalist parties had reasserted themselves, the Security Council was told this afternoon as it met to consider the situation in that country.
		On 11 November, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina had demonstrated that they were prepared to participate in establishing their political destiny in a democratic, free and peaceful manner.
		The economic reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the success of the transition process were also very important for Yugoslavia, in view of the interdependent nature of the economies of the two countries.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2000/20001114.sc6950.doc.html (3811 words)

	[22 Jul 1996]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
		Bosnia and Herzegovina continued to demand that the terms of the Dayton Agreement should be met strictly: that there be a certification that free and fair elections had taken place.
		He replied that Bosnia and Herzegovina would continue cooperating, as was consistent with the Dayton Agreement.
		A Bosnian Serb leader was already demanding that the joint institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would be established through the elections process, should be physically placed on the boundary between the Federation and Republika Srpska.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1996/19960722.bosnia22.jul.html (686 words)

	Dayton Agreements
		The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the official name of which shall henceforth be "Bosnia and Herzegovina," shall continue its legal existence under international law as a state, with its internal structure modified as provided herein and with its present internationally recognized borders.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be a democratic state, which shall operate under the rule of law and with free and democratic elections.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina shall consist of the two Entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska (hereinafter "the Entities").
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bostalk.htm (1907 words)

	BALKAN MEDIA & POLICY MONITOR: Bosnia Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Essentially, everything is controversial: by this rule the re integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina is destimulated, and at that, in its key part - the return of refugees to their original residences.
		The Pale-Banja Luka republic is dominated by the opponents of the Bosnian- Herzegovinian statehood and proponents of unification with Serbia and Montenegro.
		A more hypocritical decision than the one which set the Bosnian elections for September 14, has not been taken in a long while, even in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is used to such treatment of its destiny from the international community.
	mediafilter.org /MFF/Mon.BOSP.html (3647 words)

	Serbia Today 96-09-16
		Legal elections of the authorities in the Republic of Srpska, Muslim-Croat federation and at the level of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is establishing their legitimity and thus wholesome conditions for all the future steps and decisions to be the subject of competencies of the so established legitimate bodies.
		According to the joint view, elections are a turning point towards a new phase of accelerated normalization of life and confidence building between citizens, most of all stabilization of peace and establishment of conditions for an efficient protection of freedoms and equality of citizens.
		President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Lilic stated for the British TV agency BTA that he is expecting from the elections in Bosnia to confirm all the values of the Dayton Agreement and to pave the way for an overall democratization of the region of former Yugoslavia.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/serb/1996/96-09-16.serb.html (1554 words)

	Elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Full Details
		At the last general elections, SDA obtained 32, SzBiH 15, SDP 15 and HDZ 16 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (at entity level).
		These elections will be a struggle of life-or-death for the three major nationalist parties, SDA, SDS and HDZ, which have marked the political life of Bosnia-Herzegovina for years since the end of war.
		The Bosnian elections, which coincide with the most crucial stage of the Kosovo status talks, will be decisive for the future of the country as well as for the future of the Balkans in general.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=1074 (1736 words)

	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two Entities - the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, as well as the district of Brčko.
		The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is nominated by the Presidency and approved by the House of Representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (1645 words)

	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: parliamentary elections Predstavnicki dom, 2002
		BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: parliamentary elections Predstavnicki dom, 2002
		Elections were held for all the seats in the House of Representatives on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Voters went to the polls on 5 October 2002 in general elections to elect the three-person joint Presidency, the 42 members of the House of Representatives and the members of the cantonal assemblies.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2039_02.htm (569 words)

	Press Releases: Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Election observation mission
		Elections will be held for the three-member Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President and Vice-Presidents of the Republic of Srpska, and for the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska.
		These will be the first general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be completely administered by the national authorities, without international membership of the Central Election Commission.
		The OSCE/ODIHR EOM and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, headed by Ambassador Douglas Alexander Davidson, operate independently under separate mandates.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MYOO-6TU3KJ?OpenDocument (494 words)

	Bosnia-Herzegovina National Elections, Volume 1: Section III: The National Elections
		The rules of registering political parties apply to elections for the House of Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for the House of Representative of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and for the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.
		The rules of registering independent candidates apply to elections for the House of Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for the House of Representative of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and for the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska.
		Elections were held for the House of Representatives of BiH, for the Presidency of BiH, for the House of Representatives of the Federation of BiH, for the National Assembly of the Republka Srpska, and for the Presidency of the Republka Srpska.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/call/call_98-18_ch3.htm (1409 words)

	Human Rights House Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced
		Rights of refugees and displaced persons in the election process will not be jeopardized and they will, regardless of the introduction of passive registration of voters, be able to vote in the municipalities in which they resided in 1991.
		The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who live abroad and do not vote at regular polling stations in the country have also preserved their right to vote.
		On 3 May, the central election roll contained, after the so-called passive registration of voters, the total of 2,644,545 voters, which is 280,000 more than it previously had.
	www.humanrightshouse.org /dllvis5.asp?id=4460 (392 words)

	Elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Same Old Story
		However, at these tri-presidential elections, candidates of SDA, Sulejman Tihic, of SDS Mladen Bosic (SDS) and of HDZ Ivo Miro Jovic lost the race to their respective adversaries without remedy.
		Although Bosnia is one of the poorest countries of the Balkans, ethnic-based rhetoric prevailed over the most important economic and social problems.
		Right after the first results of the elections were announced, Nebojsa Radmanovic retorted that if Haris Silajdzic, the strongest advocate of a united Bosnia, continues to pursue such a scheme, “the cooperation will be very hard” since a united Bosnia “cannot happen”.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=1082 (1076 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Elections
		Haris SILAJDZIC of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH) won the poll for the Muslim member of the country's tripartite presidency with 62.80% of the Bosniak vote or 350,520 votes.
		Two incumbents in Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency appear to have lost their seats, and a third is in a neck-and-neck race to the finish.
		The October general elections, completion of the first phase of constitutional reform, and talks on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU are the three priorities Bosnia and Herzegovina must address in 2006, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said on Monday.
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=28 (624 words)

	BALKAN MEDIA & POLICY MONITOR: Bosnia Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All sides in Bosnia are undertaking all in their capabilities that the results of those elections mirror the ones held recently in Mostar.
		Their list for the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is lead by the mayor of Tuzla and president of the UBSD Party, Selim Beslagic, and the list for the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by the vice president of UBSD, Sejfudin Tokic.
		The first fact to be hadd in mind is that the parties participating in the elections in that city represented the two nations wehich comprise the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and who were allies duringthe last year of the war.
	mediafilter.org /mff/Mon.BOSP.2.html (3514 words)

	International Crisis Group - Elections in Bosnia and Herzeg
		Under such handicaps the elections were bound to confirm the effective division of the country on ethnic lines and that proved to be so.
		Analysis of the preliminary results from the elections suggests that there was a serious discrepancy between the overall voter population and the number of ballots cast.
		On the basis of this failure to achieve the required conditions for holding the elections, disenfranchisement, electoral engineering, and the preliminary vote count results, the 14 September elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be considered free and fair as required by the DPA.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1567&l=1 (286 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina at Euro Portal - page 1
		Bosnia and Herzegovina: Roma and the right to education.
		Factsheet The Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimates of the number of Roma living in Bosnia and Herzegovina vary -- the most often quoted figure is of about 60,000 Roma out of population of over four million...
		The international community should continue to hand over responsibility for reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina to its leaders despite the magnitude of the challenges involved, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative for the Implementation of the P...
	infoeuro.biz /news/categ-Bosnia_and_Herzegovina-24.html (353 words)

	US State DEPT. DISPATCH, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 34, AUGUST 19, 1996
		Today, the Presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia have agreed to take a number of new steps which, if implemented, will significantly strengthen the prospects for meeting the next challenge--which is the holding of effective, democratic elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Tomorrow, I will be going to Sarajevo, where I will urge the people of Bosnia to put aside the divisions of the past and to look to the future- -as they have an opportunity to choose their leaders one month from now.
		With this election, you will take back the power that was denied you for four long years by snipers and prisons, by tanks and mines.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dispatch/1996/html/Dispatchv7no34.html (2496 words)

	NATO Topics - History of NATO in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To implement the military aspects of the Dayton Peace Agreement, a 60,000-strong Implementation Force (IFOR) deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a one-year mandate, under UN Security Council Resolution 1031.
		Bringing to an end a historic mission, handing over to EU At their Istanbul Summit in June 2004, NATO leaders decided to bring SFOR to a conclusion by the end of the year as a result of the improved security situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider region.
		NATO continues to maintain a military headquarters in Bosnia and Herzegovina to carry out a number of specific tasks.
	www.nato.int /issues/sfor/evolution.html (546 words)

	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: parliamentary elections Predstavnicki dom, 2000
		BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: parliamentary elections Predstavnicki dom, 2000
		The State Parliament had failed to adopt the country's election law in 2000, and so the OSCE organised and supervised the polls, as it had in previous post-war elections.
		The nationalist SDS is the single largest party in Bosnia's Serb republic with 36 per cent of the vote, but it failed to gain the absolute majority in the Republika Srpska Parliament.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2039_00.htm (653 words)

	PRESIDENTIAL AND GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA,
		The inhabitants of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina will also be re-electing the 98 members of their Chamber of Representatives and those in the ten local assemblies; the inhabitants of the Serb Republic will elect the 83 members of the National Assembly as well as the President and the Vice Presidents.
		The last presidential and general elections on 5th October 2002 for which only half of the voters turned out to vote (54.98%), witnessed the victory of the ruling nationalist parties, in power since the end of the war (1995).
		He recalled that the non-application of the reform of the police and the public audio-visual services would herald the end of the EU accession procedure; he enumerated all of the laws that had to be voted on; primarily these include those involving education and notably higher education.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/bosnie/presidentielles/default.htm (3177 words)

	bosnia and herzegovina:Attacks on the Press in 1996
		Ilic, an AP photographer based in Belgrade, and Delic, a photographer with the Bosnian Government News Agency who also works for AP, were arrested near a bridge connecting Serb- and Bosnian government-held parts of Sarajevo.
		Havlicek said that the purpose of the bodyguard was ostensibly to look out for the numerous land mines remaining in the region, but journalists who refused the service were pursued and harassed by a press center employee sent to enforce the rules.
		Her editors believe that her husband was targeted because of her coverage of violence leading up to Sept. 14 national and regional elections.
	www.cpj.org /attacks96/countries/europe/cases/bosniaherzegovinahar.html (1090 words)

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