MINIĆ AND CVIJANOVIĆ WELL AHEAD OF OPPONENTS IN VOTE COUNT

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 4 /SRNA/ - SNSD candidate for president of Republika Srpska Savo Minić has won 161,900 votes counted so far, compared with 127,000 for SDS candidate Branko Blanuša, SNSD spokesman Radovan Kovačević said.

Kovačević said SNSD candidate for Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović had received 142,000 votes, SDS candidate Marinko Božović 69,000 and List for Justice and Order candidate Nebojša Vukanović 61,000.

He stressed that Cvijanović had so far received more votes than the other two candidates combined.

"As President Milorad Dodik says, it looks like they were the ones stealing votes from us at elections all along," Kovačević said at a press conference.