MINIĆ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, CVIJANOVIĆ ELECTED SERB BiH PRESIDENCY MEMBER

SARAJEVO, NOVEMBER 3 /SRNA/ – Savo Minić /SNSD/ will serve as President of Republika Srpska for the next four years, while Željka Cvijanović /SNSD/ will be the Serb BiH Presidency member, ccording to the general election results in BiH certified and announced today by the Central Election Commission /CEC/.

The Vice-Presidents of Republika Srpska will be Ramiz Salkić of the SDA and Igor Balukčić of HDZ 1990.

Darijana Filipović /HDZ BiH/ was elected the Croat BiH Presidency member, while Denis Bećirović /SDP/ was elected the Bosniak member.

The results of the elections held on October 4 show that, in the new composition of the Republika Srpska National Assembly, SNSD will have 34 of the 83 seats, PSS 12 and SDS 10.

United Srpska, the DNS-NPS coalition, the SP-DEMOS coalition and NDP will each have five seats, while the List for Justice and Order and SPS will each have four. The Coalition for State will hold three seats, while the Republican Party of Srpska won one seat.

In the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, the SDA will have nine seats, SNSD six, SDP BiH five, HDZ BiH four, SBiH three, while DF, NiP, SDS and PSS will each have two seats. Our Party, NES, United Srpska, the List for Justice and Order, HDZ 1990, the DNS-NPS coalition and the SP-DEMOS coalition will each have one seat.

The results for the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament and the cantonal assemblies in the FBiH were also certified.

Following the CEC's decision today to certify and publish the results of the general October 4elections, statutory deadlines for forming governments at all elected levels have begun.

At today's session, the CEC also amended the instructions on suspending and reactivating electoral mandates and adopted a consolidated version of the rules governing the procedure for indirect elections to BiH's government bodies covered by the Electoral Law.