VARIOUS: VOTE TALLIES IN THE BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY ELECTIONS RELEASED AS COUNTING CONTINUES

Record ID: 328571

  • Title: VARIOUS: VOTE TALLIES IN THE BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY ELECTIONS RELEASED AS COUNTING CONTINUES
  • Date: 17th September 1996
  • Summary: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (SEPTEMBER 17, 1996/ RECENT) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) SARAJEVO (SEPTEMBER 17, 1996) 1. SLV VOTE COUNTING IN RESULTS CENTRE (5 SHOTS) 0.22 2. GV OSCE (ORGANISATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE) MISSION IN BOSNIA ROBERT FROWICK AT MEDIA CONFERENCE 0.29 3. SCU FROWICK SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.34 4. SCU FROWICK SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.45 5. GV MEDIA CONFERENCE 1.50 VARIOUS LOCATIONS, BOSNIA (RECENT) 6. GV BOSNIAN PRESIDENT ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC AT SDA RALLY (5 SHOTS) 2.10 7. SV BOSNIAN SERB CANDIDATE MOMCILO KRAJISNIK CASTING VOTE (2 SHOTS) 2.16 8. SV BOSNIAN CROAT CANDIDATE KRESIMIR ZUBAK CASTING VOTE (3 SHOTS) 2.55 TRANSCRIPT SEQ 3-4 FROWICK. "HERE IS THE LATEST VOTE TOTALS AT 6:45 PM HERE. FOR THE HIGHEST AND NEXT HIGHEST CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY - IZETBEGOVIC 629,439 .... KRAJISNIK 508,026. "I THINK I HAVE TO LEAVE THAT JUDGEMENT TO ALL OF YOU TO DECIDE BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU THE PATTERN THAT LOOKS INCREASINGLY COMPELLING TO ME." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 1996 13:00
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  • Location: SARAJEVO AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Reuters ID: LVAR7BZB6K7KE5ADS92SDIV7A4N
  • Story Text: INTRO: The winners of the Bosnian presidency elections are due to be announced on Wednesday after delays, but the organisers have released the vote tallies so far, saying the race is now "compelling".

    Counting of votes from Bosnia Herzegovina's countrywide elections continued on Tuesday (September 17) with final results expected on Wednesday. But the poll's international organisers gave interim totals which showed a race developing for the overall presidency.

    Robert Frowick, the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Bosnia, said some 85 per cent of the votes in the Moslem-Croat Federation had been counted and 79 per cent in the Serb Republic.

    Frowick said Moslem leader Alija Izetbegovic had now polled 629,439 votes, against 508,026 votes for hardline Bosnian Serb candidate Momcilo Krajisnik.

    Both men were certain of taking the Moslem and Serb seats in the collective presidency, but the candidate who polls most votes overall takes the first two-year chairmanship of the body.

    Frowick said Krajisnik's main rival, Mladen Ivanic, had taken more than 240,000 votes, a stronger challenge than several independent experts had expected.

    Frowick said Izetbegovic's main rival, former prime minister Haris Silajdzic, had polled 110,845 votes. Frowick declined to be drawn on the likely outcome, but said the trend was "increasingly compelling".

    "There has been a certain political contest in this election, especially between Moslems in the Federation and (between) Serbs," Frowick said.

    Already members of the Moslem-Croat Federation have met to discuss strategy. Bosnian Prime Minister Hasan Muratovic and his foreign minister Jadranko Prlic were in Zagreb for a meeting with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Tuesday, and were expected to be discussing their plans if Izetbegovic becomes president, or their response if Krajisnik were to poll most votes.


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