OSCE calls on Bosnia's rival leaders to reform election law

FILE PHOTO: An information board is pictured as people queue to cast their ballots during the local election at a polling centre in a school in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina December 20, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Europe's main security and rights watchdog urged Bosnia's rival ethnic leaders on Monday to end political deadlock and carry out electoral reform designed to shore up the shaky post-war democracy.

Bosnia is scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in October 2022 but needs to pass amendments to the election law by the end of 2021 since no changes can be made in an election year.