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October 02, 2006

Votes Being Counted Following Bosnian Poll

An elderly couple votes in Sarajevo on October 1 (epa)

October 2, 2006 -- Votes are being counted in Bosnia-Herzegovina following yesterday's general election in to pick politicians who will lead the Balkan nation after international supervision ends next year. 

Bosnians voted for Serb, Croat, and Muslim members of the Presidency and parliament as well as the president and two vice presidents in the Republika Srpska. Turnout was put at about 43 percent.


Muslims and Croats support strengthening the central government. Serbs oppose changes that will weaken their autonomy.


Bosnia was divided into a Muslim-Croat federation and the Repubilka Srpska under the 1995 Dayton peace treaty ending Bosnia's war. Important decisions however are made by an international administrator who will be withdrawn next year.


(Reuters, AP)


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