(AP-ANSA) - SARAJEVO - This weekend's general election in
Bosnia could cement the ethnic divisions drawn in the brutal
1992-95 war as a pro-Russian nationalist runs for the country's
three-member presidency and politicians campaign on past
rivalries rather than reforms. Some 3.3 million voters are being
asked to fill the national presidency and other elected
positions in the complex network of institutions created by the
peace accords that ended the Bosnian War. Bosnia today consists
of a Serb entity, a Muslim-Croat entity and a central government
that holds both together loosely. Voters on Sunday choose the
three members of the Bosnian presidency, the president of the
Bosnian Serb entity, assembly seats at all levels and cantonal
authorities. The results could determine whether Bosnia is
strengthened as a unified, multiethnic country or fragments
again along ethnic lines. (AP-ANSA).
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