- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: ONLY 55 PER CENT OF BOSNIANS VOTE IN GENERAL ELECTIONS
- Date: 6th October 2002
- Summary: (U3) SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 6, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV/CU NEWSPAPER KIOSK/PEOPLE READING NEWSPAPERS (3 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SLV OF INTERIOR OF THE POLLING STATION 0.22 3. SV/CU ELECTION OFFICIALS WORKING (3 SHOTS) 0.42 4. SV INTERIOR OF PARTY OF DEMOCRATIC ACTION HEADQUARTERS 0.48 5. CU OF PRELIMINARY UNOFFICIAL RESULTS BEING RECEIVED IN COMPUTERS 0.54 6. SV SCREEN WITH RESULTS ON WALL 1.00 7. SV PEOPLE LOOKING AT COMPUTERS 1.07 8. SLV OF MEDIA BRIEFING 1.13 9. SV PEOPLE CHEERING WHEN UNOFFICIAL RESULTS ANNOUNCED 1.20 10. MCU (English) HASAN MURATOVIC, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PARTY, SAYING: "According to the information we have received from whole Bosnia-Herzegovina, we are now the leading party." 1.34 11. SLV MEDIA BRIEFING AT SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY HEADQUARTERS 1.38 12. MCU (Bosnian) SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SDP), HEAD ZLATKO LAGUMDZIJA, SAYING: "It is now evident that results are below our expectations, but it is also evident that the three nationalist parties have not managed to get majority." 2.06 (U3) BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 6, 2002)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. SV/MCU SDS (SERB DEMOCRATIC PATRY) OFFICIALS DRINKING WHISKY, CELEBRATING THE EXPECTED RESULTS/CHECKING RESULTS (3 SHOTS) 2.35 14. SLV SDS HEADQUARTERS 2.40 15. MCU (Serbian) DRAGAN KALINIC, PRESIDENT OF THE SDS, SAYING THAT THE PARTY'S CANDIDATE MIRKO SAROVIC SEEMS TO HAVE WON THE PRESIDENCY AND THAT THE PARTY HAS ALSO DONE EXTREMELY WELL IN THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. 2.49 16. SDS RESULTS 3.00 17. PAN FROM ELECTION POSTER TO BUILDING 3.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SARAJEVO AND BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
- Country: Bosnia
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- Story Text: Only 55 per cent of Bosnians voted in Saturday's
general elections, officials said, possibly giving an edge to
old-style nationalists over Western leaning reformists trying
to bury ethnic divisions.
The first preliminary figures were not due until
Sunday (October 6) evening. But the low turnout could be bad
news for the reformists, as analysts see their voters as less
reliable, while support for the big mono-ethnic parties is
usually steadier.
The main Serb and Muslim nationalist parties released
their own forecasts which they said confirmed a swing in their
favour, though based on very small and likely unrepresentative
samples.
The Muslim Party of Democratic Action, now in opposition
at the state level, predicted it would be impossible to
exclude it from government.
The hardline Serb Democratic Party said it had made a
strong showing, better than expected. That would make it hard
for moderates in the Bosnian Serb Republic to rule alone.
The main non-nationalist Social Democrats said their own
results were worse than expected, blaming low turnout, but
predicted that reformist parties together could prevail. The
next largest reformist party said it expected a good result.
Voters chose deputies for the Bosnian state parliament
that sits above the parliaments of the country's post-war Serb
and Muslim-Croat halves. They also picked three multi-ethnic
state presidency members, a Serb president and 10 canton
assemblies.
It was a bewildering choice among 57 parties and more than
7,500 candidates. But new equality laws will guarantee truly
multi-ethnic governments at all levels.
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