DARIJANA FILIPOVIĆ LEADS IN RACE FOR CROAT MEMBER OF BiH PRESIDENCY

SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 4 /SRNA/ - HDZ candidate for Croat member of the BiH Presidency Darijana Filipović won 92,854 votes, while DF candidate Slaven Kovačević received 55,475, according to preliminary BiH Central Election Commission /CEC/ data obtained from scanners and based on around 80 percent of polling stations processed.

"Independent candidate Zdenko Lučić received 44,345 votes," CEC President Jovan Kalaba said at a press conference in Sarajevo. Regarding preliminary results for Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency, Kalaba said Denis Bećirović, candidate of United for State BiH, won 164,369 votes, while SDA candidate Bakir Izetbegović received 148,036. "Semir Efendić, candidate of Party for BiH, won 110,530 votes, while SBB candidate Fahrudin Radončić received 9,320," Kalaba said. In the election for the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly from FBiH, SDA won 186,675 votes, SDP 91,886, HDZ BiH 83,834, SBiH 51,356, NiP 39,535, DF 36,976 and Croatian five 27,967. Kalaba said 1,432,269 voters, or 42 percent, had cast ballots today, but that some polling stations were still open. He added that the CEC had instructed municipal and city election commissions to keep polling stations open no later than 10 p.m. He noted that there had been no switch to traditional voting and that the scanners had performed their part of the process. Around 60 complaints concerning breaches of the election silence and 50 complaints over violations at polling stations had been received and forwarded to the relevant municipal and city election commissions.