- Title: Bosnia recounts votes for president of Serb-majority region
- Date: 13th October 2022
- Summary: SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION BUILDING IN SARAJEVO POLICE CAR PARKED OUTSIDE BUILDING VARIOUS OF WORKERS TRANSPORTING BAGS OF BALLOTS INTO BUILDING ELECTION COMMISSION CLERKS WAITING IN HALL TO RECOUNT BALLOTS WORKER BRINGING BAG OF BALLOTS TO TABLE CLERK ARRANGING BAGS CLERKS SITTING AT TABLE CLERK OPENING BOX WITH SCISSORS VARIOUS OF CLERKS COUNTING BALLOTS BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING IN STREET IN BANJA LUKA (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) PASSER-BY, MIROSLAV MATOVIC, SAYING: "Shame. For both sides (for and against recount) and in particular for the Central Electoral Commission, which has been, as we all know, reporting until the morning (after election day). I’d been waiting and waiting in the evening to hear, and then they said they’d be announced in the morning." (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) PASSER-BY, RADOVAN DJURIC, SAYING: "Milorad Dodik is not God-given in this state. Milorad Dodik was not even in the war. I lost one child, Milorad Dodik did not." (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) PASSER-BY, SMILJA SUVAK, SAYING: "I think it is not fair. The official results should have been made public first, and then complaints should have been filed, and then, if something is not right, there surely is something that is not right, but it should then be recounted (in this way). That is my opinion." BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 3, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LEADER OF ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL DEMOCRATS AND CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF SERB REPUBLIC, MILORAD DODIK, ADDRESSING SUPPORTERS ON ELECTION NIGHT VARIOUS OF DODIK WITH SUPPORTERS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF SERB REPUBLIC FROM PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS, JELENA TRIVIC, ARRIVING TO SPEAK TO SUPPORTERS TRIVIC SPEAKING, SUPPORTERS APPLAUDING VARIOUS OF TRIVIC EMBRACING SUPPORTERS AND LEAVING
- Embargoed: 27th October 2022 16:43
- Keywords: Bosnian election Jelena Trivic Milorad Dodik Serb Republic ballot recount disputed results
- Location: SARAJEVO AND BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- City: SARAJEVO AND BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001209513102022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Clerks working for Bosnia and Herzegovina's Central Election Commission (CIK) opened and checked bags of ballots on Thursday (October 13) in a recount of votes for the president of its autonomous Serb region.
The Balkan country held presidential and parliamentary elections on October 2, including the presidential vote in the Serb Republic, in which the main contenders were Milorad Dodik, the outgoing Serb member on Bosnia's tripartite presidency, and opposition candidate Jelena Trivic, an economics professor.
On election night, Trivic, of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP), declared victory based on the preliminary ballot count from a number of polling stations.
But the next morning, Dodik took the lead, which has been confirmed by CIK with 98% of votes counted.
A bloc of opposition parties filed complaints and held protests alleging the ballot was rigged by Dodik.
In Banja Luka, the main city of the Serb Republic, there was criticism of how the process of initially counting the votes and the decision to recount had been handled.
The CIK hopes to complete the vote count by November 2, a month after Bosnia held nationwide elections.
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