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00:00:18Good afternoon, you are following N1 info, today's
00:00:20events.
00:00:24General elections have started in Bosnia and Herzegovina, polling stations are open, citizens are electing a new government
00:00:28for the first time with help.
00:00:34The beginning of the election day, however, did not pass without difficulties at several
00:00:37locations, the start of voting was postponed due to technical
00:00:41difficulties with devices for scanning ballot
00:00:43papers.
00:00:47The German Chancellor, on an unannounced visit to Kyiv, promises
00:00:50additional aid
00:00:51to Ukraine.
00:00:56Bosnia and Herzegovina is today electing a new government for the next four years.
00:01:00Polling stations across the country opened at 7 AM, and citizens will, until
00:01:047 PM, elect members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:01:07representatives in the state and federal parliament, the president and
00:01:10vice-presidents of Republika Srpska, deputies in the National Assembly of Republika
00:01:14Srpska, and representatives in cantonal assemblies. The central
00:01:17voter register includes over 3.4 million
00:01:21voters, while among 7.28 certified
00:01:24candidates, a total of 518 mandate holders
00:01:27are being elected. 5,500
00:01:30polling stations have been formed. These are the first elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:01:34conducted with the use of biometric voter identification
00:01:37scanners for ballot papers, as well as with
00:01:41fast transmission of election results. According to information
00:01:44collected so far, municipal and
00:01:46commissions for their city election commissions have accredited about 25,000 observers from political
00:01:50entities, and it is estimated that
00:01:53a total of about 30,000
00:01:56observers will monitor the elections.
00:02:01The Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold a press conference
00:02:04on the progress of the election process and
00:02:14greet you on my behalf and on behalf of the Central Election Commission. Today
00:02:18general elections are being held in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some polling
00:02:21stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not open exactly at 7 AM. According to
00:02:25information from municipal and city election commissions, a small number of polling
00:02:29stations are still not. either open or closed due to problems with the operation
00:02:32of scanners, ballot paper scanners, which is being resolved
00:02:36by replacing the scanners. By
00:02:4011 AM, 406,847
00:02:42406.847
00:02:46voters, or 11.94%, had voted
00:02:49in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For comparison, at the same time
00:02:52in the general elections of 2022, 15% of voters
00:02:56had voted. As you can see on the screen, the...
00:03:01number is changing and we already have
00:03:03413,000.
00:03:07Among those who voted by 11 AM,
00:03:1044.10% were women and
00:03:1255.90
00:03:15percent were men. We are happy that by 11 AM,
00:03:185,757 voters who, after
00:03:22reaching 18 years of age, voted
00:03:25for the first time. Also, voter verification takes
00:03:29on average 37.35 seconds from search to
00:03:32printing the confirmation. We are in constant
00:03:35communication with the election administration in
00:03:38the field. There is a problem with the operation of the identification device
00:03:41for a small number of voters, mainly with
00:03:44newly issued ID cards, and for that problem, we have sent clear instructions
00:03:48to the field. We had a report from voters that candidate
00:03:52now determine what happened at lists given to voters during voting were already marked by
00:03:56a previous voter. We instructed that voters must receive
00:03:59candidate lists without markings, that any
00:04:02markings must be removed by deletion by the polling committee. Those are the
00:04:06candidate lists that are given with the ballot
00:04:11were satisfied at your polling station where papers. According to our information,
00:04:13most problems were in Bijeljina, and according to the latest
00:04:17information, the situation there has stabilized.
00:04:20We have only one polling station that was not open by
00:04:2411
00:04:25AM.
00:04:28According to information... from the Operational Staff of the "General Elections
00:04:322026" action, headquartered
00:04:35at the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, two incidents
00:04:39were recorded in Tuzla and Banovići
00:04:43by 11 AM, and police officers took the necessary
00:04:46measures. Also, according to information received from
00:04:49the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska regarding
00:04:53the conduct of the election process, by 11 AM, two reports were received
00:04:56for disturbing public peace and order. In one case, a warrant was issued.
00:05:00In the other, there was no basis for action. The Central Election
00:05:04Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina once again calls on all citizens with the right
00:05:08to vote to go to the polling stations, exercise their democratic
00:05:11right, and vote, but we also ask them for
00:05:14patience and cooperation with the polling committees. We demand from
00:05:18the election administration to strictly adhere to legal procedures
00:05:22and established instructions for
00:05:24work.
00:05:40from me too, I want to say that... A few words, first of all, therefore, I would like
00:05:44to emphasize that this is one of the most important
00:05:47reforms since Dayton, and certainly
00:05:51the most important electoral reform, the introduction
00:05:54of specific electoral technologies into the electoral process.
00:05:58At the same time, these are also the most transparent elections
00:06:01since Dayton. This
00:06:04path taken in
00:06:07terms of the application of specific electoral technologies is
00:06:10irreversible. This is the way
00:06:13we should go in the future. Perhaps there are some
00:06:17minor dissatisfactions and grumbling, but
00:06:20I must emphasize that this is a strategic commitment of the state and
00:06:23the right direction for Bosnia and Herzegovina in the long
00:06:25run.
00:06:28Especially in this activity, we want to highlight the exceptional help we received
00:06:31from the Agency for Identification
00:06:34Documents, Records, and Data Exchange of Bosnia and
00:06:38Herzegovina and its director, Professor Dr. Almir
00:06:41Badnjević,
00:06:43and his
00:06:45expert team. Through this, we personally thank
00:06:49you, director, and your agency. Also,
00:06:53we want to express great gratitude
00:06:55to the members of municipal and city election
00:06:59exceptional dedication so far and
00:07:03continuous action both before the election
00:07:07day and on the election day itself.
00:07:10Thank you very much.
00:07:40basic information. You said there were problems, but I would
00:07:43like to say, for the public and for you as a journalist,
00:07:47that indeed the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and
00:07:51Herzegovina has done a huge job. All of us who were at the polling stations
00:07:54this morning saw how
00:07:58the system functions, that it really goes fast. As a
00:08:02journalist, I asked how the process was going at that
00:08:05polling station where there were about ten other polling stations.
00:08:09They said everything was fine. That's why
00:08:12the question of scanner failures,
00:08:16or rather that the scanners did not work, becomes even more pressing.
00:08:19We heard before the elections that
00:08:22all checks were performed, that everything
00:08:26was in order. How will the Central Election Commission now
00:08:30determine uh, what the problem
00:08:34exactly was? How will you know, given that at earlier
00:08:37sessions before the elections, it was
00:08:41assumed... or if a problem arises, that only
00:08:45CIK will decide where manual counting goes. We hear since
00:08:48this morning that manual counting is being mentioned
00:08:52by local election commissions. Please explain to us now,
00:08:56uh, given that we know about the irregularities from
00:08:59previous elections in previous election years, how will you
00:09:05so many polling stations where the scanners
00:09:08did not work this morning? On the other
00:09:23you voted. Regarding problems with the
00:09:27functioning of devices, these can be determined after forensics
00:09:30which will be done after the elections. We had the same situation
00:09:34in the test elections, where we had certain problems
00:09:37with the devices, and a subsequent report determined that
00:09:41it was a matter of improper handling of the device. It often
00:09:44happened that the device, that paper after paper was inserted into the scanner
00:09:48without respecting the red light by which
00:09:51the scanner signals that it is still processing one ballot,
00:09:55and then another ballot was added. So, that kind of forensics will be done. As
00:09:59for how these problems are being resolved today,
00:10:02the prescribed procedures are being followed.
00:10:06So, there is a call center where problems are reported, we have
00:10:10operators, we have technical support. We have problems
00:10:13with the call center, which is often busy, which is why
00:10:17all of us are in constant communication with the
00:10:20election commissions and we are trying
00:10:23to help more quickly. As I said, there is
00:10:27technical support, if that is not possible, there is device
00:10:30replacement. So, those types of procedures are being followed. As
00:10:34for what to do if further
00:10:37scanning, i.e., the functioning of that device,
00:10:41cannot be enabled, the Central Election Commission makes decisions on
00:10:44a case-by-case basis. No election commission at this moment
00:10:48has a message from the Central Election Commission that the scanner will not be used,
00:10:52i.e., that ballot papers will be manually counted. So, "we
00:10:55take a stand and decide on a case-by-case basis in order to
00:10:59achieve the purpose of introducing new
00:11:20it seems, over 30 polling stations. How did you solve that?
00:11:24What is the reason why it was not possible
00:11:28to work with
00:11:37even before the opening of polling stations, all members
00:11:41of the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina were in contact with all
00:11:44presidents of municipal and city election commissions. I personally
00:11:48had the opportunity to be in contact with
00:11:51the president of the City Election Commission of Bijeljina, so I was aware
00:11:55of those problems. The problems
00:11:57happened roughly
00:11:59uh, in a way that my colleague Vanja may have already explained in one way, meaning
00:12:03that the device itself, some in its
00:12:07uh, in its structure, in the way they should have been
00:12:11put into operation, some operators were simply
00:12:14unable to put them into
00:12:17operation. In some cases, there was also a lack of training
00:12:20for operators, meaning the technical staff who were supposed to operate these
00:12:24devices. to put them into operation, to help the members of the polling committees.
00:12:28That process lasted all, perhaps all
00:12:30night until some morning hours. Unfortunately, during the opening
00:12:34of polling stations in Bijeljina, we were unable to open
00:12:38polling stations at over 30
00:12:41locations. Then the operators, technical staff, and Smartmatik staff
00:12:44stepped in again, and in coordination with
00:12:48the Central Election Commission, we managed, by the beginning
00:12:52of the conference, practically, to eliminate all those problems, of course
00:12:55with a significant delay.
00:12:58Perhaps there was already a delay of about three hours in terms
00:13:02of the start of the election
00:13:05process itself, but the most important thing is that the problems have been resolved,
00:13:09the scanners are in operation. Now we
00:13:12will probably, with the Bijeljina Election Commission, jointly make a decision
00:13:15on whether to extend voting at that polling station. We have succeeded
00:13:19so far, but this is proof that nothing is
00:13:22perfect, but these are the first elections
00:13:25where, as it was said,
00:13:29uh, new election technologies
00:13:31are being used. This will be a test for the company, and for
00:13:35us, and for everyone, on how to prepare better in the coming
00:13:38election cycles.
00:13:54polling stations that did not open on
00:13:57time? Is there a possibility of repeating
00:14:00elections at some polling
00:14:07Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, if
00:14:10there is an interruption in work at a polling station for up to three
00:14:14hours or a delay in opening a polling station,
00:14:18then the polling stations are allowed to operate
00:14:21longer for the period of the delay or for that time.
00:14:25For the duration of the interruption. If the delays are longer than three
00:14:28hours, the decision on whether polling stations
00:14:32will be open for three hours after 7 AM, which would
00:14:35mean after 10 AM, will be made by the Central Election
00:14:39Commission in cooperation with the municipal, or rather city, election commission.
00:14:43This will probably be the case for Bijeljina and perhaps some other
00:14:46places. As for repeating elections, elections are
00:14:50repeated where they could not
00:14:53take place on election day. We have information that some
00:14:57polling stations were not open,
00:15:00and we will discuss this at one of our
00:15:04first sessions regarding these polling stations. The municipal
00:15:07election commissions will receive clear instructions. This can
00:15:11happen in seven days, or at most in 30 days.
00:15:14Our goal is that these
00:15:17elections are conducted with specific election
00:15:20technologies, that this is a unified way of conducting
00:15:24elections. It is easiest if you have a problem to decide to
00:15:28abandon technology, but that will not be such
00:15:31a simple
00:15:46a polling station in Bukvik, the ballot material was not delivered,
00:15:49or rather, instead of the ballot paper for the BiH Parliamentary Assembly,
00:15:53the election option for Republika Srpska was supplied with material for voters with
00:15:56Federation of BiH citizenship. So, how will
00:16:00that problem be solved? How much are you even aware of this
00:16:10municipality is that? Bukvik, I think it's Brčko. Bukvik, Brčko, that means
00:16:13the district. We have that information, we have
00:16:17that, we found out, we will bring the polling station, we will investigate what it is about,
00:16:21and then we will make adequate decisions. Thank
00:16:24you very much, please, all the material was
00:16:27delivered to the polling committees yesterday,
00:16:30of course, they were not allowed to unpack the ballot
00:16:34papers, but an instruction was issued, first to the municipal
00:16:37election commissions to check if they received the boxes belonging
00:16:41to their municipality, and then the polling committees, when they
00:16:45took over the material, were supposed to check if it was the material for
00:16:48their polling station. If
00:16:51it was indeed an oversight in the printing house during
00:16:54packaging, then we should have known that very early. As far as I
00:16:57know, that information was delivered to us quite late, but we will see
00:17:01what we can do. If there
00:17:03is a problem, we don't have many options
00:17:08but to deliver and then call voters to
00:17:12return or repeat the voting at that
00:17:33there were the most problems, voting has started
00:17:36way. Are these true
00:17:39information?
00:17:44I have nothing more to add to the information I gave
00:17:47a few minutes before the press
00:17:51conference. I personally spoke with
00:17:53the president of the commission, and she just
00:17:57told me the encouraging news that even the last scanner is
00:18:01practically in a situation to be in operation. So, I really do not
00:18:04have that information, nor do we in the Central Election
00:18:15this polling station. The Brčko District Election Commission
00:18:19informed us about it. We had information,
00:18:22however, it is likely a matter of swapping
00:18:26ballot papers, so we suggested to the Election
00:18:30Commission to check at other polling
00:18:33stations whether or not the material
00:18:37was delivered so that the necessary exchange can be made. In all their
00:18:41checks so far, we have not found
00:18:44anything, and we will probably make a decision
00:18:48to most likely either postpone the elections or
00:18:51something else when
00:19:07will be announced via a press release around
00:19:114 PM, and it will be the turnout until
00:19:143 PM. The next press conference, as you were
00:19:17announced, is planned for 8 PM, where
00:19:21we will present a summary of the election day,
00:19:24but we hope to also announce
00:19:28preliminary election results.
00:19:30We heard, therefore, that the beginning
00:19:36of the election day did not pass without difficulties in the Tuzla
00:19:40Canton area. This morning, most polling stations for the general elections were opened, while
00:19:44at several locations, the start of voting was prolonged due to
00:19:47technical difficulties with devices for scanning ballot papers. Due to
00:19:51technical problems, elections did not start on time at
00:19:55some polling stations in Zenica, Visoko, Kakanj, Maglaj, Vareš, and
00:19:58Usora. At individual polling stations in Republika Srpska, delays were recorded due to
00:20:01technical problems with new equipment in Bijeljina
00:20:05at 30 polling stations.
00:20:07Voting did not start on time due to problems with new technologies, while
00:20:11difficulties with scanners or biometric devices
00:20:14were also recorded in Gacko, East Ilidža, in the area of East
00:20:18Sarajevo, Laktaši, and Pale. The CIK stated that
00:20:21they will extend voting time at polling stations where the opening was delayed.
00:20:25birališta.
00:20:29And in the Mostar area, not all polling stations were
00:20:32open at the scheduled time this morning. Problems were recorded at
00:20:35several polling stations due to difficulties with specific electoral
00:20:39technologies, i.e., scanners. In
00:20:42case the problems on the scanners
00:20:46that are currently at the polling stations are not resolved, we will send a backup device.
00:20:50Technical support and the operator will try
00:20:53everything so that the backup device is
00:20:55configured to open the polling station.
00:20:59If that is not possible, we must request permission
00:21:02from the Central Election Commission for those polling stations
00:21:05to switch to the old method of operation without
00:21:08scanners.
00:21:11While the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are today electing the government for the next four years, the N1
00:21:15team spoke with Mostar residents about what they expect after
00:21:18the closing of polling stations. Citizens' responses range from complete
00:21:22disappointment and belief that nothing will change to hope that the
00:21:26elections could still bring a better, more secure
00:21:29future. After the elections, we just need to
00:21:33know what, whether it will change or not. We hope for the best,
00:21:36but oh well, that's
00:21:39it. Well, I expect nothing, a slightly harder, much harder
00:21:43situation than it has been so far, unfortunately that's how it
00:21:46is, we'll wait for new elections, that's it, we hope.
00:21:50Hoping for a better future for us, that
00:21:53something will start, that people will
00:21:56be happy about something and so on. It's not important
00:22:00anymore how much money, but rather in some
00:22:02political security,
00:22:04for people to be at peace, not to
00:22:07be afraid that there will be
00:22:10some conflict, that intolerance between
00:22:14nations will stop. There is no reason at all.
00:22:17All the best, better than before. Well, we
00:22:20hope, we hope, it should be, right,
00:22:24we wouldn't have come out if we didn't
00:22:25hope.
00:22:29Polling stations in Banja Luka opened this morning at 7 AM. A large number
00:22:32of citizens coming to vote has been recorded since the opening. The atmosphere
00:22:36at the polling stations is calm, and the election process is proceeding without visible
00:22:39tensions. Members of the polling committees guide citizens through the procedure, while
00:22:43special attention is also paid to the application of new election technologies. At
00:22:47certain times, short queues form while citizens
00:22:51patiently wait to cast
00:22:53their votes. With me, from the very first
00:22:57minute, we had problems with the scanner, but we solved
00:23:00that, then later with the ID card reader, but
00:23:04we solved it. So, it's important that people who know
00:23:08this type of thing, these operators, can
00:23:12solve it, and we who are, well, someone who
00:23:15has worked with a copier or a scanner, can very easily
00:23:19come to a solution, you know,
00:23:22because everything is written in Serbian, it's very simple when it opens, you see what it is, what
00:23:26it's about, and it gets resolved. So,
00:23:29the operators just needed it at the beginning, and everything
00:23:33else goes by
00:23:35itself.
00:23:38What would I like? I would like everyone
00:23:41to do their job.
00:23:44Well, what was there until now wasn't bad, but it can probably
00:23:48be better. Change and nothing more.
00:23:52Just changes. We usually always came out to vote,
00:23:55so I'm doing that today. My civic duty
00:23:59will be fulfilled, and what we
00:24:02vote for, we probably
00:24:05want them to do their best, for there to be
00:24:09some change, for things to be a little better. This has been terrible
00:24:12so far, so I expect perhaps some change,
00:24:15something a little better for us to start generally.
00:24:18i
00:24:20All 138 polling stations in the Brčko District opened
00:24:24on time. Two mobile teams are also active, and the election process is proceeding with
00:24:28minor technical difficulties, mainly due to new election
00:24:31technologies. I expect that we will finely give politicians the same
00:24:34salary so that they quarrel, maybe things will be
00:24:38better for us too, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. Well, I expect some changes
00:24:41for the better. We expect nothing, so it's all the same
00:24:45faces, the same people. It will only get worse, especially in Brčko
00:24:48District. Something better is expected than what has been so far.
00:24:51And I hope, I hope for better
00:24:54changes.
00:24:57Most polling stations in the Tuzla area opened on time this morning. A total of
00:25:00154 regular polling stations are available to voters,
00:25:03as well as one polling station for absentee voting. Voting is
00:25:07being held at 52 locations, and for the needs personnel have been engaged.
00:25:11nine mobile teams.
00:25:13I expect big changes because of that piece of paper we
00:25:17get with a picture, actually they get. "Hmm, it's
00:25:21known who votes, I'm very glad that the dead no longer vote,
00:25:25nothing, believe me, these old ones should all
00:25:27be removed, we've been waiting
00:25:31for something better for 30-something years, this is God forbid, so I expect things to move
00:25:34forward a bit and towards something better, I mean
00:25:38it's time, I guess we realized during the past four
00:25:41years what is better for us,
00:25:45so let's leave it at that, what
00:25:47do I expect?".
00:25:50What can I tell you, until now I've voted, voted, voted, voted,
00:25:54here's how much, never anything special, nothing
00:25:57special has been done, I don't know what to tell you,
00:26:01what I expect. That's
00:26:03the same.
00:26:08Ukraine will intensify its attacks on Russian refineries in response to
00:26:12the intensification of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure,
00:26:15said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Reuters.
00:26:18He said that Ukrainian intelligence came into
00:26:22possession of documents of a new Russian doctrine according to which, as he
00:26:26said, Russia is expanding its list of targets to include civilian objects with
00:26:29the aim of forcing Ukrainians to leave the city.
00:26:36"We must respond as we can, after their attacks
00:26:39on our energy system, we must respond with attacks on theirs,
00:26:42primarily the refineries that give them money to wage war, but we will not
00:26:46target, unlike them, civilian objects. We cannot
00:26:49do that because we are a different people, we are
00:26:52humans.
00:26:56German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived on an unannounced
00:26:59visit to Ukraine to pledge additional aid in defense." from Russian
00:27:03attacks, if Russia is not stopped, its war machine will sooner or
00:27:06later turn against us, Merz said upon arrival. Merz arrived in Kyiv
00:27:10accompanied by directors of German defense companies to
00:27:14provide support to President Volodymyr Zelensky amid increasingly frequent
00:27:17Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities. Today I will tell President
00:27:21Zelensky, you can continue to count on our help, Merz
00:27:32awaits us today until the end of the day, and the beginning
00:27:35of next week, according to the satellite
00:27:39image, we see that we are still in
00:27:43a clear field, while a smaller amount of unstable
00:27:46air has penetrated over the western Mediterranean
00:27:50and over Spain we have strong development of daily
00:27:53cloud cover and showers that also have tropical
00:27:57characteristics.
00:27:59The weather situation here is under the influence. of a high pressure
00:28:03field that extends from the east over our
00:28:06regions, this field is slowly weakening before the arrival
00:28:10of this cyclone which will move from Spain
00:28:14towards the Gulf of Genoa bringing a change
00:28:17in weather here, but only somewhere
00:28:21in the middle of the week, from the middle of the week onwards.
00:28:24Today sunny, relatively
00:28:27warm, with increased bora wind only in the far
00:28:31south of the Adriatic. while in the Adriatic in the rest of the Adriatic
00:28:35the maestral will blow. Inland
00:28:39temperatures around 20°, in
00:28:42Herzegovina on the Adriatic 25 to
00:28:4526. Sea temperature is 20,
00:28:48between 22 and 24
00:28:52Celsius. Further development of the weather situation will be
00:28:56influenced by a cyclone that will come
00:29:00closer and closer to our regions and begin to affect
00:29:03the weather somewhere on Wednesday with a change
00:29:07in circulation, it will start to blow from the south,
00:29:10on Thursday clouds will start
00:29:13to gather from the west, on Thursday we can already expect
00:29:17local rain. This change
00:29:20in weather will be associated
00:29:23with a small drop
00:29:27in air temperature, so the air temperature will be somewhere inland
00:29:30around 2.
00:29:33degrees maximum daily in Herzegovina
00:29:37somewhere around 18°, and
00:29:40morning temperatures will remain at the same level as
00:29:44before, with localized frost
00:29:47possible in basins,
00:29:50so today sunny, warm
00:29:53maestral, enjoy this
00:29:56week, more about the weather you can follow
00:29:59on our info channels.
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