Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:00"you see what is happening in the world and political, and every other
00:00:03scene, uh, actually we
00:00:06are a small
00:00:10problem for all the American problems they currently have on a global level,
00:00:14but, uh, of course, it's important for us
00:00:17to attract foreign capital, to get through
00:00:20these dynamics,
00:00:23uh, so to speak, that are on the political
00:00:27scene, uh, at a global level, a little before..." the beginning of our
00:00:30conversation, while browsing portals, the first highlighted news was this
00:00:34situation with BHRT, the pressure on judges
00:00:37who are, therefore, in that proceeding against Radio Television of Republika
00:00:40Srpska, how do you think this situation will be resolved,
00:00:44will BHRT manage to survive given
00:00:47this, well, we can say, considerable disinterest
00:00:51of institutions to solve their problem. Well, we are in the Commission for Transport
00:00:54Communications, I don't know how many times we have considered the situation at
00:00:58BHRT, then letters from the director, then the management and so on,
00:01:01there are internal and
00:01:03external problems and influences that we need to separate. Of course, this lawsuit
00:01:07with RTRS, that's a question of disrespecting the law
00:01:11on public RTV system
00:01:13and uh, we insisted and
00:01:19by the scanner, results actually requested and filed criminal charges against members of the managing
00:01:22board of the public RTV system who blocked and
00:01:25disputed the establishment of the system, because actually that
00:01:29managing board is the only one authorized to collect
00:01:32and distribute funds from RTV tax,
00:01:35mm, RTRS unilaterally abolished
00:01:38remittances of collected
00:01:41taxes in accordance with the principles that were
00:01:45established, i.e., percentages of collected funds,
00:01:48and that led to a very bad situation at
00:01:51BHRT, and BHRT here, uh, due to
00:01:55the unpaid amount
00:01:58to this European broadcasting network,
00:02:02it has come to a very difficult situation. The court process is
00:02:05actually the seizure of property in question, I am afraid
00:02:09there are some behind the scenes whose interest
00:02:12is to acquire that property as cheaply as possible,
00:02:16and we will see how that will last, but this process
00:02:19between RTRS and BHRT, I think these are things
00:02:23that are perfectly clear, the only question is whether the judges who will
00:02:27judge and rule on this will...
00:02:30actually trample on their profession and that judicial
00:02:33morality that should be brought
00:02:37to the fore, that's why
00:02:39BHRT, uh, I'm not exactly sure that it will very soon get out
00:02:43of trouble, but there was some light at the end of
00:02:46the tunnel, because the rulings, you know, started
00:02:50in favor of BHRT, what will happen next, we'll see, but
00:02:53I'm sure there are huge pressures behind the scenes on
00:02:57judges to actually rule in... use these resources.
00:03:01Commenting on this situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, you criticize
00:03:04both sides, those who were previously in power, and those who are
00:03:07today, uh, do you see after those
00:03:10October elections some
00:03:13political options with whom you could sit at the same table
00:03:16and agree on some things that should improve,
00:03:20are there today forces that are sufficiently
00:03:23capable of being part of the government? First of all, uh,
00:03:27there will be a political reshuffling, there will be... a change
00:03:30in relations in the political sense at the level of Bosnia and
00:03:34Herzegovina, at the level, for example, of lower levels,
00:03:37due to the introduction of new technologies, it will no longer be
00:03:41possible to create so-called Bulgarian trains, I don't know, those
00:03:44organized thefts of the will
00:03:47of citizens, now it will be, therefore, counted
00:03:50on the spot, and the will
00:03:53of the citizens will be as it is, I am sure that there will be a complete
00:03:57change in relations, that is one thing, another thing...
00:04:00"Uh, I will sit with everyone who is ready to respect
00:04:03the constitution and laws of this country, of course, to protect
00:04:07the interests of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those who are not, I would not
00:04:11sit with, no matter what is at stake. Therefore,
00:04:15here it is a question of either
00:04:18preserving the interests of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or politicking.
00:04:21If it's just about forming a council of ministers or, I don't know, the government
00:04:24of the federation or the government of RS to get ministerial positions, to use
00:04:28privileges, to continue with corruption, theft, and so on,
00:04:32far from me. But I will insist on that, of course,
00:04:36if I am in a position to decide on these
00:04:38issues. So, respect for the Constitution and Laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:04:42If we are not going to respect the constitution, then we sit down
00:04:46and agree on a new constitution. This constitution does not suit me
00:04:49either, this constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because it is actually
00:04:53a constitution that, uh, provided for all possible
00:04:56blockades, but did not provide for the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the development of institutions.
00:05:00The development of society, rapprochement with NATO and the European Union,
00:05:04and so on. Therefore, uh, I am for a progressive
00:05:08approach. Whoever can help this country move forward will
00:05:11have a dialogue partner." "You just said that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a hostage
00:05:15of the political agreement between SNSD and HDZ, and then the logical
00:05:19question arises as to how much Bosniak parties are equally
00:05:23responsible for such a situation, especially those who are part
00:05:26of the government. Muamer Bandić from the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina says that before
00:05:30the elections, you falsely presented yourself as a protector
00:05:33of Bosniaks from crises that you partly created
00:05:36yourself. If I had wanted to participate in that, I would be
00:05:40today where I was."
00:05:42Therefore, since 2010, I have been pointing
00:05:46out these problems, and maybe Muamer
00:05:49Bandić has become a little senile and forgotten
00:05:53some things, but let me remind him that since
00:05:562010, within the political party
00:05:59of which I was then an active participant, I fought
00:06:02for change, change
00:06:06in attitudes towards institutions, towards the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unfortunately,
00:06:10I did not have a dialogue partner or I did not have a sufficient number
00:06:13of dialogue partners, because people were prone to
00:06:17leaving, they were not prone to fighting. I fought
00:06:20as long as I could. When it was said that it was
00:06:24a family inheritance, a political party, I kindly said thank you and good luck,
00:06:27I'm going another way. Mr. Mehmedović, thank you very much for being our guest, for
00:06:30discussing these topics live today. Šemsudin
00:06:34Mehmedović, member of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia
00:06:37and Herzegovina, leader of the Forward party was with us for the past half hour,
00:06:41we will briefly comment. Then we talk about the election process and the October
00:06:45elections in Bosnia and
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00:09:14In the upcoming October elections, voters can expect a new
00:09:18voting system with biometric identification, optical scanning
00:09:21of ballots. The goal is greater security of the election process
00:09:25and faster determination of preliminary results. Special emphasis,
00:09:29they say, will be placed on the secrecy of voting. Dragica Gajić brings
00:09:32more information about that. Reading
00:09:36the identification document, voter search,
00:09:39authentication, identity confirmation, these are the steps
00:09:43to issuing a ballot. After that,
00:09:46the voter continues the procedure as before, takes a paper
00:09:50ballot that will be marked with a unique
00:09:53QR code and proceeds to vote.
00:09:56The difference is that after voting, the ballot is inserted
00:10:00into an optical scanner. The device reads the ballot
00:10:04and electronically records the result. The optical
00:10:07scanner does not record any information about how a particular
00:10:10ballot was cast, nor does it contain any
00:10:14personal data, meaning images of the ballot
00:10:18are randomly stored, which further
00:10:21protects the secrecy of voting, meaning there is no data
00:10:25on time, identification data, meaning there is truly no
00:10:28way for someone to know how someone
00:10:32else voted. They add that results are transmitted to the Central
00:10:36Election Commission only after the polling
00:10:39station closes. The president of the polling committee with
00:10:42his code, with his card,
00:10:46smart card, token, he
00:10:49locks the polling station, meaning when he
00:10:52enters his codes, they are. recorded until 7
00:10:56p.m., but if someone is at the polling
00:10:59station, they will exercise their right only at that moment. If there
00:11:03are five or six people, for example, until 7:05 or
00:11:067:20 p.m., they will be given the opportunity to vote. When there is no
00:11:10one left, at that moment, when the president of the polling committee
00:11:13confirms with a smart card and his code that it is
00:11:17locked, then it goes into lockdown. For the implementation of new technologies,
00:11:21160 trainers have been trained.
00:11:24So far, 200 biometric devices
00:11:27and 200 scanners have been received. New equipment will be used at approximately
00:11:315,300 polling stations, as well as in the main
00:11:35counting center. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, optical scanning
00:11:38of ballots enables parallel electronic counting
00:11:42which supplements, but does not replace official manual
00:11:46counting. By consistent reading of each ballot
00:11:49and digital transmission of electronic results,
00:11:52the system supports faster publication
00:11:55of preliminary results and helps in identifying
00:11:59discrepancies that require additional verification. This
00:12:02system will prevent multiple voting,
00:12:05voting on behalf of another person, or voting
00:12:08with invalid documents, and any other
00:12:11misuse, according to those in the know. We had
00:12:15cases, that is not the case, it was a common occurrence
00:12:18for one voter to vote multiple times with different ID cards. I personally
00:12:22witnessed this at... two polling stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina where I
00:12:25was present. With these new technologies and biometric
00:12:29integration of voters, that will be prevented because the
00:12:33entire system
00:12:36is connected with the idea that
00:12:39at any given moment, it will be known whether it is the person who
00:12:43approached the elections by name and surname. Will
00:12:47the new system bring more security and efficiency,
00:12:51it will be known as early as October 4th, when it will be tested
00:12:54for the first time in BiH practice. Dragica Pejaković,
00:12:58N1.
00:13:02On this topic in the continuation, at a time of numerous political discussions about the election
00:13:05law, the introduction of new technologies into the election process, strengthening citizens' trust
00:13:09in elections, we are talking about the state of the election system, the challenges faced by
00:13:13the Central Election Commission, and plans to improve
00:13:16the transparency and regularity of the election process in BiH. Our guest
00:13:20is a member of the Central Election Commission, Željko Bakalar. Good day to you and welcome. Good
00:13:24day, thank you for inviting me. So, today there was a presentation, uh,
00:13:28of part of the system and how it will function. Citizens will, therefore,
00:13:31on October 4th, uh, for the first time, except for those who were in the
00:13:35test phase, uh, encounter biometric
00:13:38identifications and scanners. Can you explain, step
00:13:41by step, in brief, how voting will look
00:13:45on October 4th? Well, it will largely look
00:13:49as it has so far, with the changes that electoral technologies
00:13:52will be used in... the part that concerns
00:13:56the identification of voters, the authentication of their
00:13:59identity, and the way in which
00:14:03the ballot is inserted into the ballot box, in
00:14:06the part that refers to the appearance of the ballot itself, when
00:14:10we talk about elections for the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and
00:14:13Herzegovina, the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, the House of Representatives
00:14:17of the Parliament of the Federation and the Cantonal Assemblies in the Federation. So,
00:14:21it's about the fact that in these elections, we will
00:14:23have biometric devices for identification
00:14:26and authentication, where voters will use
00:14:30one of three valid identification documents, as before.
00:14:33These are, therefore, an identity card, passport, and driving
00:14:37license, with the condition that uh, these
00:14:40documents will be passed through
00:14:43a biometric device. We are currently discussing, watching how it looks. Yes, you have it on
00:14:47the screen. So, it will be passed through a biometric
00:14:50device on which data will be stored. This is effectively
00:14:54an electronic voter register, in contrast to the one that was previously
00:14:57in paper form, and where in
00:15:01the previous process, mm, numerous
00:15:05manipulations were made. So, the electronic voter register will be stored on
00:15:08the device exclusively for voters who are registered
00:15:11on the voter register for that polling station.
00:15:15After it is uh, confirmed that it is that
00:15:19voter, complete data from the database
00:15:22will appear on the screen, so... there will be a photograph,
00:15:26the voter's name and surname, mm, and after that,
00:15:29the voter will have to
00:15:32place their finger on the fingerprint scanner, storing
00:15:35one of the two index fingers that exist in the ID databases that
00:15:39our citizens provided when obtaining identification
00:15:43documents. What is very important is that this device will automatically
00:15:47be able to recognize whether the identification document that
00:15:50the voter is using is valid or has expired. If
00:15:53it has expired, the voter will not be allowed
00:15:55to vote, so you must come to the polling station with a valid document. Yes,
00:15:59we had a large number of used invalid documents. We recorded
00:16:03this in the audit of, for example, these last elections that we annulled
00:16:06for the president. The vice president of Republika Srpska recorded
00:16:10a large number of such mm
00:16:13cases. In this case, therefore, when this device is used,
00:16:16that will no longer be possible. By matching with the fingerprint
00:16:20that is in the ID database, the voter's identity will be confirmed
00:16:24to be a real person. This will, this will prevent
00:16:27manipulations that have appeared so far, that voting
00:16:31in the name of another person or multiple voting by the same
00:16:34voter, which in our opinion is one of...
00:16:38major electoral frauds that have occurred so far, and this
00:16:41will prevent that. I must for the sake of the public, for the sake of
00:16:45the spins that appear in the media, which are mostly
00:16:49instigated by opponents of the introduction of new
00:16:52technologies who come from politics, say that
00:16:55the device will not store a copy of the fingerprint,
00:16:59but rather a mathematical algorithm
00:17:02that is connected to that
00:17:05copy of the fingerprint. So, biometric
00:17:08data will not be, it will not be possible
00:17:11to misuse it. Not even a person who might get hold of such a
00:17:15device, those stored data, cannot absolutely misuse
00:17:19that personal data in any way. This is a special category of personal data, and we
00:17:23paid special attention to that, we adopted rules,
00:17:26adopted protocols, uh, in cooperation with the agency for
00:17:29identification documents and the agency for personal data protection
00:17:32who gave their opinion on our rulebook
00:17:36and we adopted it. "And now we just need to follow those protocols and
00:17:39store the data on the device. Mr. Bakalar,
00:17:43to what extent will this actually slow down
00:17:46the election process on election day? Well, it might slow it down a little, but
00:17:50not significantly, uh, indicators show that it goes quite
00:17:54quickly, mm, it could slow down if
00:17:57someone actually tries some manipulation, then you have to
00:18:01return that voter, or if the voter is not
00:18:04on the voter list for that polling station, then the device will
00:18:07print out which polling station they are registered at. Such cases
00:18:11can slow down the process a little, but mostly if voters are
00:18:14well-educated in time, well informed about which polling
00:18:18station they are registered at, there should be no problems.
00:18:21What will happen if during election day, for example, one of these
00:18:25devices breaks down or there is a power outage at
00:18:29the mentioned location? As far as electricity is concerned, we have no problems because
00:18:32each device has a power unit, meaning a battery
00:18:36that can operate for over 12 hours, so in that case there will be no
00:18:39problems with both the biometric device and the scanner. As
00:18:43for device failure, there will be technical teams
00:18:47on the ground who will, therefore,
00:18:49in a very short time, try to fix it, if there is a minor
00:18:53technical problem. In the extreme case, it can be
00:18:56replaced with a device in a shorter period. If that replacement
00:19:00device does not function, then there is,
00:19:04but only in exceptional cases, a possibility to revert to the
00:19:08traditional method, but this should not be a widespread occurrence. It can only be
00:19:11an exception that will not be tolerated. In the case of a widespread occurrence,
00:19:15we will consider what is happening. We believe that this will not
00:19:19be the case. You said that the voting process is not complicated, we are watching how it looks,
00:19:23however, uh, are the members of the polling committees, or
00:19:26rather, will they be trained by election day
00:19:29to adequately perform their duties expected
00:19:33of them at the polling stations? What is the biggest challenge for the supplier
00:19:36of this job and the Central Election Commission is
00:19:40to organize training, both voter training,
00:19:43voter education related to these changes I mentioned,
00:19:47and the training of election administration from
00:19:50the highest level to the level of members
00:19:53of polling committees. So, we have been pretty much hindered
00:19:57by various manipulations that have
00:20:00occurred in the political sphere, by preventing us from getting
00:20:04uh, quickly, the money that was transferred to us
00:20:08from the central bank, so that it would be operational, mm,
00:20:12by decisions, or rather, by decisions of the Minister of Finance and Treasury,
00:20:15but also by numerous complaints that came
00:20:19to our tender that we announced,
00:20:22which tried to slow down this process. Now we have
00:20:2645 days left until election day, so about six weeks, and
00:20:29that's quite challenging. It would be more comfortable for us to have
00:20:33a little more time, but what does the supplier say? I want to ask you that...
00:20:37because there are already talks that the elections might be
00:20:41postponed precisely because the supplier
00:20:44allegedly will not be able to fulfill his obligations. What
00:20:47is your information about that?
00:20:50And spins, these are disinformation that mostly come from
00:20:53political circles. I will tell you that the Central Election Commission, even in
00:20:57our informal internal conversations, did not raise that as
00:21:01a topic. So, the elections are planned and will be held
00:21:04on October 4th. We have assurances that the
00:21:07supplier will meet all deadlines and that the equipment will arrive
00:21:11and be functional. Now remains the part that concerns the training
00:21:14of election administration, operators, and so
00:21:17on. Why was it decided that after scanning
00:21:20ballots, the mandatory manual counting of votes
00:21:24would be retained? This is something that people perceive as a question. Well, you can ask
00:21:28the former High Representative. So, that norm is situated
00:21:32in the election law, and that
00:21:34norm is something that we respect, and we will proceed
00:21:38in that way. And what if, for example,
00:21:41there are differences in the results
00:21:44of electronic counting and this manual counting?
00:21:47According to which results will the CIK validate? How will the CIK relate to
00:21:51that? This is also prescribed by the rulebook on the implementation of elections adopted by the Central Election
00:21:54Commission. So, it is very clear.
00:21:58The pilot project showed that very few
00:22:01polling stations had some deviations
00:22:05from the results displayed
00:22:09that occurred after manual counting.
00:22:12However, in any case, protocols exist, data will be entered,
00:22:16and, uh, from manual counting.
00:22:20It will be compared with the results displayed
00:22:22by the scanner. If there are discrepancies, generally, the central counting center will
00:22:26обязательно uh, count both manually and
00:22:30electronically, or receive from those polling stations, then those
00:22:33differences will be compared to see why the difference
00:22:36occurred, why the difference
00:22:40occurred, and the Central Election Commission is very
00:22:43clear that if there was manipulation, that the
00:22:46polling committee committed especially some major
00:22:50during the manual counting process, absolutely, mm, it will
00:22:53have all the data. I want to emphasize that
00:22:57the ballots are personalized, that
00:23:00we have 14 million ballots that will be printed
00:23:04and each has a personalized QR
00:23:07code. We will be able by revision
00:23:10to determine whether each ballot has been altered, whether
00:23:14there has been manipulation, then we will, of course, recognize
00:23:17the original ballots that have... passed through
00:23:21the scanner. I want to point out that the scanner will remember
00:23:24every original copy of the ballot that passed through the scanner,
00:23:28and what is truly the will of the voters will be available to the central election
00:23:32commission at all times. Any alterations can only be
00:23:35a matter for the judicial bodies, and we will
00:23:38of course submit that if such things happen. In previous
00:23:42election cycles, the biggest complaints about the CIK were precisely
00:23:45uh, regarding delays in announcing results. Sometimes we waited
00:23:49seven days or more. Can it be said
00:23:52now how much this new technology will speed up
00:23:56the announcement of official election results? That is one of the most important
00:24:00reasons why the technology related
00:24:03to scanners is being introduced. So the goal is to have results in
00:24:07a few hours, complete results in a few, these are preliminary results
00:24:10that will be delivered uh, therefore, uh, from polling
00:24:14stations, uh, so that we have them very
00:24:17quickly. Will political subjects actually have the opportunity
00:24:21to review electronic reports from scanners, for example, after polling
00:24:25stations close? Well, it depends on the case. I really don't know
00:24:29what situations might arise. We will assess and make relevant
00:24:32decisions. Uh, of course, for years we have been hearing
00:24:35accusations of election fraud, and what is happening today
00:24:38is actually, in a way, a product of that entire
00:24:42situation. Will these changes finally
00:24:45narrow the scope for election manipulations, given that they are
00:24:49almost impossible? completely removed, but
00:24:53will the elections actually become more transparent,
00:24:56fairer, will they restore voter confidence
00:25:00ultimately in the electoral process? This is the biggest
00:25:03electoral reform since Dayton to
00:25:07today, so the introduction of technologies, uh,
00:25:10it wouldn't be needed if in many election cycles
00:25:14what was happening didn't happen, so we have
00:25:16only in the last few election cycles been... brought
00:25:20into a situation where we have to annul elections due to manipulations we
00:25:24discovered at a certain number of polling stations,
00:25:26uh in the public space it is very often
00:25:30mentioned that these manipulations are much larger
00:25:32in scope, there are therefore ways in which
00:25:35political parties steal in elections,
00:25:39this is an attempt to have cleaner, more transparent,
00:25:42fair elections and to strengthen the integrity of the electoral process
00:25:46and to restore the shaken confidence of citizens and voters.
00:25:50"in the electoral process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this is
00:25:53therefore mm in a way after
00:25:57the experience of this convocation of the central electoral commission with several recent
00:26:01election cycles and our attempt
00:26:03to uh through what
00:26:07we are doing, and we are quite alone, I must say, in Bosnia and
00:26:11Herzegovina we don't have general support from either the Council of Ministers or
00:26:14the parliament, which should be said, apart from a few
00:26:17state agencies and representatives of the international community
00:26:21to try to restore that
00:26:24confidence. Yes, since you're already talking about those pressures from
00:26:28political circles, some political actors claim that the Central Election
00:26:32Commission and its members act outside constitutional
00:26:35and legal frameworks and we hear it in recent days, how do you
00:26:39respond to those accusations? Well, these are mostly these political subjects and
00:26:43politicians who oppose the introduction
00:26:45of technologies, these are their ways of putting pressure
00:26:49on the institution. How much does all that
00:26:52actually complicate the work of the Central Election Commission? Well, we are not
00:26:56used to easy working conditions, we mostly work in difficult
00:26:59conditions. Uh, will uh... What also
00:27:03arises as a question, this electoral technology that will be
00:27:06implemented therefore in the October elections, will it be
00:27:09applied in local elections in two years, that is,
00:27:13in general elections in four years? Is it planned that this system
00:27:17remains in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the next electoral processes? That's right, and this
00:27:21tender was announced therefore with the obligation of the supplier to do everything
00:27:24he does for the 2026 elections, he has the
00:27:27obligation to do for the local elections in 2028.
00:27:31We have an extended warranty on equipment after that period and
00:27:34the plan is to work four to five election cycles with this equipment, and after
00:27:37that we'll see, we hope that technology will advance and
00:27:41we'll see what the situation
00:27:44will be with, and these are therefore the first elections with technologies, how voters
00:27:48will adapt to this system, what are the benefits of the system,
00:27:51so we will have an evaluation of all this after the elections. There were many
00:27:55objections to the appearance of the ballot papers, that is, their
00:27:58concept, uh, well, there were actually complaints. And
00:28:02how complicated it is, difficult to understand, uh,
00:28:06do we have, will we actually have some clarifications in the
00:28:09pre-election period, or maybe you already have some of that?
00:28:12I have, we have some of, I have already
00:28:15shown some media and the president, this
00:28:18appearance of the ballot paper, so the majority system remains the same with the names
00:28:22of candidates, these are ballot papers for the presidency and presidents up to
00:28:25presidents of Republika Srpska, these ballot papers which are therefore
00:28:29here, can the camera say
00:28:32this first, they are for for this is specifically for
00:28:35uh Canton one, add it to me, here you can
00:28:39see, so it is or or for this
00:28:42parliamentary assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they have the names of all political
00:28:46subjects, that is, political parties, coalitions of independent
00:28:49candidates, on the side you have the maximum number
00:28:52of candidates that can be circled on the candidate list,
00:28:56that is, found in that election race, so what
00:28:59I will say, therefore that today. on our website
00:29:03for every municipality and city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is, Brčko
00:29:07District, the candidate
00:29:09lists have been published, go to the website www.b,
00:29:13click on the icon elections 2026. General
00:29:17elections, there you have a link for candidate
00:29:20lists, there are 45 days for every voter to familiarize
00:29:24themselves with the lists that will be an appendix to each ballot paper
00:29:28and every voter will receive those lists, names of political
00:29:32subjects, names of candidates ordered by the order in which
00:29:35the parties ordered them, so for the parliamentary assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:29:39entity parliaments, cantonal assemblies in the
00:29:42federation, mm and
00:29:45practically they will be able to see if they want to exercise their right
00:29:49to circle in addition to the political subject and prefer certain
00:29:53candidates within the list, uh the ballot paper is adapted
00:29:56for scanners and we believe that it is not
00:30:00complicated at all, we just need to work on
00:30:02voters and we need to break these political spin-offs
00:30:06that aim to undermine
00:30:09confidence in the electoral process, that's exactly what I want to ask you, is there
00:30:13a fear that the political polemics we have been hearing
00:30:16in recent days about the electoral process will somehow diminish the confidence
00:30:20of citizens in the results, regardless of this new technology, that
00:30:24it will actually reduce voter turnout in the October elections?
00:30:27Well, we will do everything in our power to conduct a voter education
00:30:31campaign. To show them that it is their right and how they will
00:30:35exercise that right, politics
00:30:38will do its thing, I call on voters to go to the polls, to
00:30:41exercise their right and see on the spot
00:30:45that it is not complicated at all and to break this
00:30:48myth that some politics, I must say, a good part of politics
00:30:51supports this, only certain political options do not
00:30:55support it, what if the turnout is less than 50%? That...
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