A close ally of Bosnia’s Serb Republic separatist leader Milorad Dodik won a snap presidential election in a tight race with opposition candidate, the election commission said on Sunday, citing preliminary results.
“According to preliminary, unofficial and incomplete results, Sinisa Karan won 50.89 per cent of the votes,” Jovan Kalaba, the commission’s president, said at a news conference.
Kalaba said that opposition candidate Branko Blanusa of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) won 47.81 per cent of the votes.
Turnout was low at 35.78 per cent, compared with 53 per cent during a general vote in 2022, he said. More than 1.2 million people were eligible to vote. The election commission announced results based on 92.87 per cent of counted votes.
The presidential mandate will last for less than a year since a general election is scheduled next October.
The election was called after Dodik was stripped of his office and banned from politics for six years.
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