Bosnian Serb opposition calls election 'rigged', stages protest

Bosnian Serb opposition protests against an allegedly rigged vote, in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 6, 2022 REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Thousands of people on Thursday protested in Banja Luka over what they said was a 'rigged' election in favour of pro-Russian nationalist Milorad Dodik in the vote for president of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic.

The main contenders for the job are Dodik, who is leaving his previous post as Serb member of Bosnia's tri-partite inter-ethnic presidency, and Jelena Trivic, an economics professor from the opposition Party of Democratic Progress (PDP).