BiH Elections: Dodik proclaimed victory

BELGRADE - Preliminary results from voting in Bosnia-Herzegovina show that nationalist parties are set to win many of the races for mayor and city council seats in the local elections held on October 2, RFE/RL reports.

Voters chose mayors and municipal councils in both of Bosnia's two semiautonomous regions — the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation — each of which have their own governments, presidents, and parliaments.

Election officials said slightly more than half of the some 3.2 million voters cast ballots in the elections and that nationalist parties were doing particularly well.

In Republika Srpska, early results showed the pro-Russia party led by President Milorad Dodik ahead of its rivals.

Dodik proclaimed the victory of his Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats party late on October 2, saying the party had won in 11 more...