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THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZRGOVINA By Predrag Vukovic
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The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), initiated
on 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14th
December 1995, by the governments of Bosnia, Croatia and
rump-Yugoslavia brought the three and a half year Bosnian war to
an end. Fifteen years have passed and Bosnia is still
experiencing the same problems of ethnic division which most
likely will be reflected in the forthcoming parliamentary and
presidential elections in October 2010. The constitutional structures created for The idea for a
centralized state that is advocated by the Bosnian Muslims is
seen in the eyes of the Bosnian Serbs and Croats, the two other
major ethnic communities, as an attempt for domination of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by the Bosnian Muslims; a domination which the
Serbs and the Croats believe will lead to the loss of their
rights in the country. There is hope that the pull factor of
European integration does make a difference. However this has
not been a smooth path and there are major problems which still
stand in the way. According to the current High Representative
in The EU must first realize that As it stands today the debate about the
future of the country has once again raised the same core
questions that were raised at the Dayton Agreement in November
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