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On Dec. 20, the residents of Mostar cast their ballots for a new local government for the first time in 12 years, while their town remains a symbol of deep ethnic rifts in Bosnia and Herzegovina 25 years since the end of the war.
According to the Hina news agency, some 100,000 citizens were eligible to vote. They chose 35 councilors out of 370 candidates for the city council. There were 1,717 observers monitoring the election.
Almost 4,000 expatriate voters registered to vote in the local election. They delivered their ballots to the nearest Bosnian diplomatic offices in 17 countries worldwide.
For the first time in 12 years now that the leading Croat and Bosniak politicians have agreed on amendments to the election law applying to the city, Mostar was able to elect a new local government.
There were 32 political parties, coalitions and independent candidates in the running. A coalition of Serb parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina ran on the Together for Our Mostar ticket.
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