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[00:00:00] "What I would like not to forget, so I will say it
[00:00:02] right now, here in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:00:06] every valid ideology has been killed, and
[00:00:09] interest has become the dominant ideology.
[00:00:13] Ms. Cenić, you are informing us that the press conference of the Central Election Commission will begin soon,
[00:00:17] but we still have a little time before that, so I would like your comment regarding these electoral
[00:00:21] irregularities. Do you expect that the number has at least
[00:00:24] decreased? Well, I will just remind you that first of all,
[00:00:28] they were afraid of this." with this
[00:00:31] technology and what do I know because in
[00:00:35] Doboj, you know, the turnout is a miracle.
[00:00:38] one, it's traditionally, well, I
[00:00:42] don't know what to say, democrats, everything
[00:00:45] uh, we know why and how and the biggest manipulations were in
[00:00:49] Doboj, but now the turnout is lower, so probably
[00:00:52] precisely because of that propaganda that was
[00:00:56] uh distrust in technology,
[00:01:00] well, you won't do it this way, you don't know that,
[00:01:04] uh, that's one thing, of course, only a lower turnout suits
[00:01:08] them, that's why Milorad Dodik was so against new electoral
[00:01:11] technologies, precisely because of that, well, he knows how it's done with
[00:01:15] presidents of polling committees, there, do you remember
[00:01:19] Ms. Sanja Vulić and her number of
[00:01:22] votes first, then repeated voting,
[00:01:25] sometimes I end up with the impression that in Doboj,
[00:01:28] there were as many inhabitants as in New York or I don't know that
[00:01:31] everyone came to Doboj to vote, uh, how many
[00:01:34] votes she gets, everyone knows her, uh, not just
[00:01:37] her, but of course such people, he was against it, there's
[00:01:41] no president of the
[00:01:45] polling committee signs the record, uh,
[00:01:48] if you don't check that record and if there's no recount,
[00:01:51] it just goes like that, so whatever
[00:01:54] is written, how many votes each got, that's how it is.
[00:01:57] That's why they were done. sometimes
[00:02:00] repeat recounts, up to
[00:02:04] I don't know, that Bulgarian train, there's nothing that hasn't
[00:02:07] happened, you have to take a picture of the vote and send it, then
[00:02:11] you get rewarded, then I don't know, this pyramid
[00:02:15] that goes, no technology can
[00:02:18] remove it, it's that to get a job, you have to
[00:02:21] bring this many secure votes, then those
[00:02:25] votes bring I don't know how many of them and so on,
[00:02:28] no technology will remove it, just as it won't remove these
[00:02:32] post-election coalitions, defectors,
[00:02:36] that, that cannot, there is no such technology, because if
[00:02:39] we had a judiciary, it would be very easily removed and
[00:02:43] that there is a moment, just like this, a moment when
[00:02:47] they convince you that we don't understand
[00:02:50] or are not insiders, that
[00:02:53] such a coalition must be formed,
[00:02:57] we were spitting at each other until yesterday, but... now if there was
[00:03:01] just a shred of integrity left
[00:03:03] for these defectors to explain how much
[00:03:07] each got for defecting, maybe
[00:03:10] such things would also be removed,
[00:03:14] but unfortunately, as I said, there is no technology or no integrity,
[00:03:17] uh, I say, a rotten combination
[00:03:21] will be made especially and the parties from
[00:03:25] the federation that
[00:03:27] already, excuse me... already say
[00:03:30] we won't with this or that or the Republic of
[00:03:33] Srpska, you will be with whoever the people
[00:03:37] there elected, whether you like it or not, that's simply how
[00:03:41] our country is structured, therefore, don't say big
[00:03:44] words first of all, and then in the end,
[00:03:48] well, we will, that's how Milorad Dodik suddenly became
[00:03:51] a European,
[00:03:54] a democrat and so on, that's how they portrayed
[00:03:57] him when that combination had to be made. and
[00:04:00] the coalition, well, we'll talk about the post-election
[00:04:03] something later, let's see when we see the results,
[00:04:07] I can't wait, but until then we'll talk about electoral technologies
[00:04:11] and the pre-election campaign, briefly, Mr.
[00:04:16] elections has been Our turnout in Prohić, perhaps we can conclude this story about new electoral technologies, so now it cannot happen for example that Borjana Krišto
[00:04:20] wins in Šurakin's village in Sarajevo, right?
[00:04:23] Well, we expect there will be fewer malversations than there have been
[00:04:26] so far, but that fundamentally uh doesn't change the general
[00:04:30] situation regarding elections and electoral
[00:04:34] results. I will generally state my opinion,
[00:04:38] uh, the social and political being
[00:04:41] does not change during elections, but
[00:04:45] if those changes occur between two election cycles
[00:04:48] in the past four years, then those changes
[00:04:52] are verified in elections, so they are only verified if they
[00:04:56] have already happened in the social being. In my opinion,
[00:04:59] no... "no significant changes have occurred in the social
[00:05:03] and political being, and that suggests the conclusion that
[00:05:07] after the elections, whatever the results may be, nothing significant
[00:05:10] will change, or now it will be..."
[00:05:12] completely in academic language this
[00:05:15] precise, an extremely
[00:05:18] low level of social productivity, that is,
[00:05:22] the efficiency of the government, will remain. Yes,
[00:05:24] uh, considering this turnout we had until 5 PM, that's
[00:05:28] the latest data, right, it's terrible data. Yes, that
[00:05:31] it's lower compared to the previous four, or four years ago by
[00:05:35] 8%, if I'm not mistaken, what does that tell us,
[00:05:38] actually, are citizens disappointed considering
[00:05:42] that... four years ago they had the feeling that they had chosen some
[00:05:45] change with this coalition that was at the state level, did it come to
[00:05:49] that, to disappointment? So they saw that change
[00:05:53] might not even be possible here, considering the coalitions that are formed
[00:05:56] and the way they act when they come to
[00:05:59] power? Well, the offer was such that people were,
[00:06:03] of course, discouraged, uh, honestly,
[00:06:07] I expected something like that
[00:06:10] you publicly said that the turnout would be low. Yes, because
[00:06:13] this offer is, as I say, so many
[00:06:17] people who regularly went to vote
[00:06:21] I meet now who say God forbid I won't vote
[00:06:24] I have no one to vote for and that's our constant problem I have no one to vote for, but
[00:06:28] I think it's not that there has never been more such
[00:06:31] messages that I have no one to vote for, so that's why I say
[00:06:35] they are all the same characters, so please,
[00:06:38] when we say elections, well,
[00:06:41] the holiday of dem... democracy, I mean, I roll my eyes
[00:06:44] immediately, what kind of holiday of democracy is it when the party leader
[00:06:48] puts himself at the head of the compensatory
[00:06:51] principle, at the head of the list, what kind of holiday of democracy is that,
[00:06:54] please explain to me, how can I believe that
[00:06:58] party is advocating for my democratic rights, of course
[00:07:02] I don't believe in madness, uh, and that's how everyone
[00:07:06] lined up and you see the same characters who
[00:07:09] drag on, but it always has to be.
[00:07:12] rewarded with compensation or traded before
[00:07:15] the elections, I will join your party if I'm on the
[00:07:19] compensation list, which means my mandate is secure, why would
[00:07:22] I switch, I mean, why would I switch otherwise
[00:07:26] and now when you look at all that and see it, then it says go
[00:07:30] to the elections, who should I vote for, dear mother,
[00:07:33] when these people are just waiting for that vote, not to mention
[00:07:36] how unproductive it
[00:07:39] is, let me put it that way. all these
[00:07:43] people who call you on the phone hey, you know, I'm on the list, that's
[00:07:46] the number, vote for me now I'm, listen to this,
[00:07:50] when I hear that I die, now I'm here
[00:07:53] in this party, but wait, in the last elections you were in
[00:07:57] another party, that discourages and the second
[00:08:00] thing is, so much hope
[00:08:02] was placed in that previous
[00:08:06] Europeanism, and then we'll do this, and then
[00:08:10] the hugging, and then playing basketball. "I don't know what they didn't
[00:08:13] do, only a flip-flop they didn't do, and then prettifying those
[00:08:17] relationships, and then who is what, how everything will
[00:08:20] be now, and it's never been worse, I can explain it economically,
[00:08:24] but it's perhaps not the
[00:08:27] right time to talk about how much worse it is,
[00:08:30] and after that great hope, meaning you voted
[00:08:33] here so that it wouldn't be SD,
[00:08:36] SDDA, then a catastrophe happens, are we voting for something or
[00:08:40] against something that was, we vote in".
[00:08:46] Is it because we have nothing to vote for actually, what is offered to us in
[00:08:49] the programs, then we say I will vote out of spite, you
[00:08:53] disappointed me, you betrayed me, you sold me and
[00:08:56] so on, now I will really vote for these guys, and that's why,
[00:09:00] for example, SDA will benefit in terms of
[00:09:03] Republika Srpska, for Milorad Dodik, every game, every
[00:09:06] win, I mean it's funny to talk about, we can
[00:09:10] only guess now whether it will be Min or Vlanuša, but as
[00:09:14] for the composition of the parliament, no matter how many
[00:09:17] votes they win, and them, and them, and them are his, mhm,
[00:09:21] so I mean, what kind of holiday of democracy, what am I talking about,
[00:09:24] the worst is that long-running drama that will happen
[00:09:27] afterwards, we will continue the conversation, but as we await the press conference of the Central
[00:09:31] Election Commission, we already have some messages from the headquarters,
[00:09:34] citizens were addressed first by the SDP
[00:09:37] after the closing
[00:09:39] of the polling stations?
[00:09:43] We all witnessed the nervousness of certain
[00:09:46] political parties, especially those who want to present
[00:09:50] themselves as exclusive representatives of this or that nation
[00:09:53] and their nervousness in the past months. That nervousness
[00:09:57] actually tells only one thing, some of that nervousness
[00:10:00] we witnessed this morning during the voting of the leaders of those
[00:10:04] political parties, it is
[00:10:07] obviously this new system in which every
[00:10:11] voter who comes to the polling station must leave their fingerprint,
[00:10:14] because without a fingerprint they cannot even access
[00:10:18] voting, which created additional nervousness, especially for those who
[00:10:21] unfortunately, right? They expected that again, I don't know...
[00:10:25] "people who are not among the living will vote, that those who
[00:10:28] are not physically in Bosnia and Herzegovina at all will vote, and so on, so maybe
[00:10:32] the results of these elections will confront all of us together with
[00:10:35] a new reality, that is actually how many
[00:10:39] citizens actually live in Bosnia and
[00:10:42] Herzegovina, because statistics are one thing, the real situation is another,
[00:10:46] it is really unrealistic that such a large number of registered voters who
[00:10:50] cycle, by which cycle opera is actually the real
[00:10:53] situation of the number of people who..." live in Bosnia and Herzegovina who are adults who
[00:10:57] have the right to vote, so with all due respect, I would not go in
[00:11:00] that direction, I would actually go in this other direction, that
[00:11:04] is that finally we will have elections in
[00:11:07] which the dead will not be able to vote, in which those who
[00:11:11] were not physically present in Bosnia and Herzegovina today will not be able to
[00:11:15] vote, we are witnesses in the past, especially in certain
[00:11:18] parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina that it was a common practice and a common
[00:11:22] phenomenon,
[00:11:24] you know." so we heard optimism from the parties that new
[00:11:27] technologies have improved the situation, we'll see what the Central
[00:11:31] Election Commission says with 10 minutes of delay compared to
[00:11:33] what was announced, the press conference begins, we see
[00:11:37] the president of CIK, Mr.
[00:11:38] Kalabuh,
[00:11:42] at this moment some polling stations are still
[00:11:45] open because they had delays in opening or
[00:11:48] interruptions in work, according to municipal city election commissions, an
[00:11:51] instruction and recommendation has been sent that polling stations work at..."
[00:11:55] longest until 10 PM challenges for polling stations where there are
[00:11:58] still voters who have not completed the voting process, i.e., who are not in
[00:12:02] the queue for voting. Also, all municipal city
[00:12:05] election commissions have confirmed that there was no
[00:12:09] transition to
[00:12:11] traditional voting, meaning that the scanners
[00:12:15] did their part of the job for which we
[00:12:18] used them. According to
[00:12:21] information from the operational headquarters, action general elections 2020.
[00:12:25] sixth of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska regarding the conduct
[00:12:28] of the election process, there were no significant disturbances of public order and peace
[00:12:32] in most of the reports there was no basis for action, in many
[00:12:36] cases it was about
[00:12:38] disinformation.
[00:12:40] We received about 60 complaints regarding the violation of election silence and about
[00:12:44] 50 complaints for violations at the polling station, which we submit to
[00:12:47] the jurisdiction of the municipal city election commissions. Given
[00:12:51] that at this moment the greatest public interest is preliminary results. data
[00:12:55] obtained by transmission from ballot scanners, I will now
[00:12:58] announce it, after the press conference
[00:13:02] the preliminary results will be published on the website and
[00:13:05] here on this screen, because as
[00:13:09] the polling stations that are not
[00:13:12] yet closed, the results will come,
[00:13:16] so I will read some results, this is from about
[00:13:20] 80% of processed polling
[00:13:23] stations, so these are the first... preliminary results for
[00:13:26] the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:13:29] Bosniak member Denis Bećirović, united for
[00:13:33] the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:13:35] 164,369 votes, Bakir
[00:13:38] Izetbegović, SDA party of democratic action
[00:13:42] 148,036
[00:13:44] votes. Semir Efendić, SBH, party for
[00:13:48] Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:13:49] 110,530.
[00:13:52] Fahrudin Radončić SBB. um 9,320,
[00:14:06] uh, Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian
[00:14:09] member, Darija Filipović,
[00:14:12] 92,854,
[00:14:16] Slaven Kovačević, Democratic Front,
[00:14:19] 55,475,
[00:14:22] Zdenko Lučić, independent candidate
[00:14:25] 44,345,
[00:14:35] Serbian member, Željka Cvijanović, Alliance of Independent
[00:14:38] Social Democrats SNSD, Milorad Dodik,
[00:14:42] 213,812.
[00:14:46] Marinko Božević, SDS, Serbian Democratic Party
[00:14:49] 102,877,
[00:14:52] Nebojša Vukanović for justice and order, list. Bojiša Bukanović
[00:14:56] 67,707
[00:14:58] votes. President of the Republic
[00:15:01] of Srpska. I will just read
[00:15:05] this: Savo Minić, Alliance of Independent
[00:15:08] Social Democrats SNSD Milorad Dodik.
[00:15:11] 202,245.
[00:15:13] Branko Blanuša, SDS, Serbian Democratic Party,
[00:15:16] 160,936.
[00:15:19] Ramiz Salkić, SDA, Party of Democratic Action,
[00:15:22] 6,740.
[00:15:25] Hamil Duraković, independent candidate,
[00:15:27] 4,413. Bogdan Jovanović, Party
[00:15:31] Life, 2,972,
[00:15:34] Jusuf Arifagić, People and Justice
[00:15:38] Nip 1,939
[00:15:41] Ivan Begić SDP Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and
[00:15:45] Herzegovina 1,797.
[00:15:48] Igor Balukić HDZ 1990
[00:15:52] Croatian Democratic Union 1990.
[00:15:55] 1,712. Marko
[00:15:58] Jorgić, independent candidate
[00:16:01] 1,251. Franjo Jukić, HDZ,
[00:16:05] BH, HSP, BH, HKD. EU,
[00:16:07] HSP,
[00:16:10] 866,
[00:16:12] Begias Majić, SBI, Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:16:15] (823)
[00:16:18] and Ivo Kamenjašević, Croatian Peasant Party,
[00:16:21] 395.
[00:16:24] Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and
[00:16:26] Herzegovina,
[00:16:30] uh, from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, namely SDA,
[00:16:33] Party of Democratic Action, 186,670.
[00:16:38] SDP Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:16:41] 91,886.
[00:16:45] HDZ, BH, HSP,
[00:16:49] HKDU, HSP, coalition
[00:16:52] 83,834.
[00:16:56] SBIh, Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:16:58] 51,356.
[00:17:02] People and Justice SD,
[00:17:04] 39,535.
[00:17:07] Željko Komšić for a civic state,
[00:17:11] DF, GS,
[00:17:12] 36,976.
[00:17:15] Croatian Five, HDZ,
[00:17:18] 1990. Coalition
[00:17:21] 27,967.
[00:17:24] NES BiH, PDA, forward for European
[00:17:27] BiH together,
[00:17:29] 24,746.
[00:17:32] Our Party,
[00:17:33] 23,382. Bosnian.
[00:17:37] Herzegovinian initiative Kasumović Foad
[00:17:41] 7,861,
[00:17:44] SBB, Fahrudin Radojčić,
[00:17:46] 7,513, BH Zeleni,
[00:17:50] 6,179, Labor Party of Bosnia and
[00:17:53] Herzegovina, Laborists BiH,
[00:17:56] 2,762, Red Lines,
[00:18:00] 1,987, Alliance of Independent
[00:18:04] Social Democrats, SNSD, Milorad Dodik, 19.
[00:18:09] Republicans of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:18:11] 1,748
[00:18:14] and for justice and order, Nebojša Gukanović's list
[00:18:17] (1,168).
[00:18:20] Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Republic from
[00:18:24] Republika Srpska, Alliance of Independent Social Democrats
[00:18:27] SNSD Milorad Dodik,
[00:18:29] 151,032.
[00:18:32] Draško Kostaninvuković, Secure
[00:18:35] Srpska movement, 50.
[00:18:37] 3,448.
[00:18:40] Serbian Democratic Party, will of the people,
[00:18:43] 50,328.
[00:18:46] For Justice and Order, list Nebojša Vukanović,
[00:18:49] 20,405.
[00:18:52] DNS, Banjac Nešić,
[00:18:55] 19,829.
[00:18:58] Socialist Party, Petar Đokić, Demos,
[00:19:02] 16,965, United Srpska,
[00:19:06] 16,240.
[00:19:08] SPS, Socialist Party Goran Selak,
[00:19:11] 11,555,
[00:19:14] SDA, Party of Democratic Action,
[00:19:16] 8,382,
[00:19:19] National Front Jelena Trivić,
[00:19:21] 7,846,
[00:19:24] Will of the People of Srpska, Srpska, Dr. Vlado
[00:19:27] Džajć, 4,851,
[00:19:30] SBIh, Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:19:33] 2,478,
[00:19:35] People and Justice, SD bih.
[00:19:38] 2,067, HDZ, BH, HSP,
[00:19:41] BH, 1,005,
[00:19:44] Republicans of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:19:46] 293.
[00:19:50] Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:19:53] SDA, Party of Democratic Action,
[00:19:55] 180,970,
[00:19:58] SDP, Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:20:02] 90,327.
[00:20:05] HDZ, BH, HSS,
[00:20:07] HSP uh
[00:20:10] 86,922
[00:20:13] Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:20:15] 52,671.
[00:20:19] People and Justice,
[00:20:21] SD,
[00:20:24] 38,
[00:20:25] 36,928.
[00:20:29] Željko Komšić for a civic state
[00:20:31] DF,
[00:20:33] 35,325.
[00:20:38] BiH, PDA forward for the European
[00:20:40] community
[00:20:42] 24,416.
[00:20:45] Our party 22.
[00:20:49] 300. 22 Coalition HDZ
[00:20:53] 1990,
[00:20:54] 21,080,
[00:20:57] SDP,
[00:21:01] Fahrudin Radončić,
[00:21:03] 7,731.
[00:21:07] Bosnian-Herzegovinian Initiative Kasumović
[00:21:09] Fuad,
[00:21:11] 7,240.
[00:21:13] BH Greens, New Time, Tuzla
[00:21:16] Alternative, 6,970.
[00:21:20] Power of the People Ramo Isak
[00:21:23] 5,878
[00:21:25] Progress Movement for a Modern Active and Active
[00:21:29] Krajina
[00:21:31] 3,901. HNP Croatian,
[00:21:35] Croatian People's Movement,
[00:21:37] 2,852.
[00:21:40] Labor Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:21:44] 2,660, Red Lines
[00:21:48] 2,558. Alliance of Independent
[00:21:51] Social Democrats SNSD Milorad Dodik,
[00:21:54] 1,868,
[00:21:56] Croatian Independent List
[00:21:58] 1,242, Republicans of Bosnia and
[00:22:02] Herzegovina 1,129.
[00:22:06] National Assembly of Republika Srpska Alliance
[00:22:10] of Independent Social Democrats SNSD Milorad Dodik,
[00:22:13] 143,847.
[00:22:17] Draško Sanivuković, Secure Srpska movement.
[00:22:20] 50,177.
[00:22:23] Serbian Democratic Party, will of the people
[00:22:25] 46,975,
[00:22:28] DNS, Banjac Nešić,
[00:22:32] 20,901. Socialist Party Petar
[00:22:36] Đokić,
[00:22:37] 19,937.
[00:22:40] United Srpska, 19,630.
[00:22:44] SPS, Goran Selak, Movement United
[00:22:48] Srpska.
[00:22:50] 16,497.
[00:22:53] For Justice and Order, list Nebojša Vukanović,
[00:22:56] 16,237.
[00:22:59] Coalition for the State, 10,175.
[00:23:03] National Front, Jelena Trivić,
[00:23:06] 8,068.
[00:23:09] Republican Party of Srpska
[00:23:11] RS
[00:23:13] 5,652.
[00:23:16] Will of the People of Srpska, Dr. Vlada Jajić, 4.
[00:23:20] 837. People and Justice Nip
[00:23:24] 1,418. SBH Party for Bosnia and
[00:23:28] Herzegovina 1,351,
[00:23:31] HDZ, BiH,
[00:23:32] HSP,
[00:23:35] 856. Life Party,
[00:23:39] 708, Republicans of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:23:42] 234, Croatian Peasant Party
[00:23:45] 183. These are the first preliminary
[00:23:48] results from this. moment you will be able
[00:23:52] to follow on the screen as polling stations close,
[00:23:56] you will be able to get the final
[00:23:58] results as soon as all polling stations
[00:24:02] close, uh, I thank
[00:24:05] the president, if not, in a moment there will be
[00:24:09] a link to the preliminary results on our website,
[00:24:12] including the levels that have already been read and
[00:24:16] 10, of course 10 cantonal assemblies
[00:24:19] and... Now, if there are any questions,
[00:24:21] please, just a moment, you can
[00:24:25] take the microphone from the colleague, it's here,
[00:24:29] good evening, already, Dženeta Sarić Kozić, HE
[00:24:32] television, please, how many conditions
[00:24:35] were actually secured
[00:24:38] for voters outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, of whom there are over
[00:24:42] 45,000, let me tell you right away, many of
[00:24:46] them did not receive ballots and...
[00:24:50] What will happen to those ballots, is manipulation with them possible
[00:24:53] and in the end, who would be responsible for people not
[00:24:57] receiving ballots, thank
[00:25:01] you.
[00:25:05] We have no information that voters outside Bosnia and Herzegovina who registered,
[00:25:09] so active registration was in question, did not
[00:25:13] receive ballots for voting by mail. We had
[00:25:16] several cases where people said they were not at their addresses
[00:25:20] abroad because they used their annual leave and their shipment
[00:25:23] was returned, returned, we really cannot send registered mail
[00:25:27] multiple times, uh, these are a few
[00:25:30] individual cases, most of those voters received ballots and
[00:25:34] if they did as written in the
[00:25:37] instruction letter, filled them out and delivered them to
[00:25:41] the central election commission's mailbox, they
[00:25:43] arrive at our mailbox and five days before election day
[00:25:47] every shipment that arrives at our mailbox from election
[00:25:50] day will be counted at the main counting
[00:25:54] center, we have voters who exercised their right to vote outside Bosnia
[00:25:57] and Herzegovina in 20 diplomatic and consular
[00:26:00] missions and "those votes will be counted in the main counting center and
[00:26:04] delivered to Zetra via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so we have no
[00:26:08] indications of what you claim, that our voters who
[00:26:12] registered did not receive shipments, it is their
[00:26:15] right to send those shipments or not to send them,
[00:26:18] we don't always have 100% turnout compared to
[00:26:22] the number of registered voters,
[00:26:25] thank you, and before
[00:26:28] the next question, just information, so.
[00:26:31] and preliminary results are already available to the public, the
[00:26:34] election results application is, in quotation marks, live,
[00:26:38] they are being updated as results come in via
[00:26:41] scanner transmission. Please, next
[00:26:45] question,
[00:26:46] Slađana Šarić, BN
[00:26:49] Television, to whom can uh
[00:26:52] BiH citizens turn who today could not
[00:26:56] fulfill their civic duty because they
[00:26:59] were not allowed to leave their workplace. "We received
[00:27:03] several calls, more dozens of them, from members of the border
[00:27:07] police, it's not that big of a number that could
[00:27:10] influence the results, but still it would be fair if all people
[00:27:14] could vote, so uh
[00:27:16] precisely some members of the border police were not
[00:27:20] allowed to vote today because
[00:27:24] they had to be at their workplace, can something be done about
[00:27:27] that and to whom can they complain if
[00:27:31] they decide to do so?".
[00:27:39] According to the election law, elections are organized on Sunday so that
[00:27:43] everyone can participate, this institution has been
[00:27:46] advocating for years to introduce the institution of early
[00:27:50] voting, precisely because of these situations for all those who are
[00:27:54] prevented, who are working on Sunday they cannot
[00:27:57] access polling stations, many employers let them go,
[00:28:01] however. The police, however,
[00:28:04] have a completely different kind of professional obligation
[00:28:07] and it's not just them who are perhaps prevented from
[00:28:11] voting today, and other categories who didn't know that it would
[00:28:14] happen, for example, that they would be on
[00:28:18] a trip, students, many people in Bosnia
[00:28:21] and Herzegovina are prevented from voting on election
[00:28:24] day. That's why it's necessary to consider that, like
[00:28:28] other countries, we should introduce the institution of early voting. It's very
[00:28:32] simple to organize and people would have
[00:28:35] the opportunity to seal their ballots before
[00:28:38] election day and fulfill that duty through the Central Election Commission. Those
[00:28:42] votes could be counted in the main counting center. Our
[00:28:46] proposals went in that direction, but all our
[00:28:49] proposals were not considered in the parliamentary
[00:28:52] assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina since
[00:28:55] 2018.
[00:28:57] Thank you very much, next question: good evening,
[00:29:01] Slađan Tomić, Buka magazine. "I have one question and two follow-up questions, it concerns
[00:29:05] whether the turnout in these elections
[00:29:08] is at a historical low, and a follow-up question
[00:29:11] uh, what do you think could be the causes? I waited an hour at my polling
[00:29:15] station, both scanners were not
[00:29:18] working, some people were returning, giving up on voting,
[00:29:21] I don't know if they returned, I don't know how common that phenomenon is, could that
[00:29:25] be one of the causes of low turnout, and another thing
[00:29:28] we hear from the civil sector that the lower turnout..."
[00:29:33] is actually a realistic indicator, for the first time a realistic indicator, because
[00:29:37] there is no repeated voting, no dead people, no people
[00:29:40] who didn't turn out for the elections and
[00:29:43] so on, so I guess you know better,
[00:29:47] thank you very much, please,
[00:29:51] well, looking at the statistics, you are right, but this
[00:29:55] turnout statistic is not final,
[00:29:58] this is based on everything we have
[00:30:01] received. until 8 o'clock, you know that the polling stations
[00:30:05] are not closed, you know that the votes from abroad,
[00:30:08] absentee votes, votes via mobile team,
[00:30:12] unconfirmed ballots, are not counted.
[00:30:16] general
[00:30:19] trending all these years until the last
[00:30:22] elections in 2022.
[00:30:25] it was between 55 and
[00:30:28] 56%. In 2022,
[00:30:32] it was 51.4%,
[00:30:35] in the last local elections
[00:30:37] 48.14%.
[00:30:40] Now we are at 42%, but that is not the voter turnout in Bosnia and
[00:30:44] Herzegovina, it will surely be higher, after
[00:30:47] we count everything tonight in the coming days, but it is
[00:30:51] possible that it will be lower, that is now for deeper analyses
[00:30:54] that this institution does not deal with, civil society
[00:30:58] organizations will deal with it.