SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnians voted Sunday in nationwide municipal elections amid concerns that the turnout will be hurt by a major surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
Some 3 million people were eligible to vote in the small Balkan nation, which has been uneasily split between its three main ethnic groups — Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims — since the end of the 1992-95 war.
Voters were choosing mayors and municipal councils in both of the country’s two semi-autonomous regions — the Serb-run Republika Srpska and the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation.
Although the elections are local, many believe they will pave the way for new overall leadership of the ethically split country due to public dissatisfaction with how nationalist.