Electoral Commission: Dodik Frontrunner in Republika Srpska Presidential Vote

Elections (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS)

Milorad Dodik, the League of Independent Social Democrats candidate in the Oct. 2 Republika Srpska presidential election, won 268,635 votes, or 48,36 percent, while Jelena Trivic of the Party of Democratic Progress won 240,353, or 43.27 percent, the Central Electoral Commission announced on Oct. 3 after processing 90.04 of polling places.

Earlier on Oct. 3, the Party of Democratic Progress reiterated that its candidate had won the vote, but that election fraud was perpetrated overnight, especially in Doboj, Zvornik and Prijedor.

Some ten minutes after midnight, Trivic had declared victory. Dodik did the same two hours later.

The Party of Democratic Progress announced that it would demand a repeat of the voting across the entire entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or at least in the cities where the party believes the worst election fraud happened.