Ethnically tinged row over voting rules threatens governance in Bosnia


  • World
  • Saturday, 24 Feb 2018

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia will not be able to form governments after the October general election unless the national parliament resolves an ethnically-charged dispute over proposed changes to the election law, a senior election official said on Friday.

The Balkan country plans presidential and parliamentary elections in October but nationalist-minded political parties are deadlocked over amendments to the law pertaining to voting for one of Bosnia's two regional assemblies.

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