BOSNIA STEADFAST ON PATH TO ELECTIONS.Byline: Raymond Bonner The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Sejfudin Tokic, 35, a former pharmacist, went Saturday from a seminar on running a political campaign to a meeting in the suburbs with campaign workers, then back to his office, with its broken windows and stained carpets, for another meeting. It was opening day of the campaign for the Bosnian elections scheduled for Sept. 14, a campaign almost scuttled by a quarrel among outside powers over whether the field was ready, then delayed by a scrimmage to wrest wrest tr.v. wrest·ed, wrest·ing, wrests 1. To obtain by or as if by pulling with violent twisting movements: wrested the book out of his hands; wrested the islands from the settlers. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic from office, something accomplished only Friday. No one would suggest that the Bosnian elections, a crucial element of the Dayton peace accord, are going to be a paradigm of democracy. The phones often do not even work, noted Tokic, leader of the Union of Bosnian Social Democrats social democracy n. A political theory advocating the use of democratic means to achieve a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism. social democrat n. , so how can he coordinate with party officials in other cities? People question how democratic an election can be when citizens are not free to return to their homes and vote, and the media are controlled by different governing entities in various parts of this fractured country. ``But we have to have elections, to make a step toward pluralization plu·ral·ize v. plu·ral·ized, plu·ral·iz·ing, plu·ral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make plural. 2. Grammar To express in the plural. v.intr. 1. and democracy,'' said Tokic, who wants to move away from ethnic-based politics. If participation is the standard, this is an incipient incipient (insip´ēent), adj beginning, initial, commencing. incipient beginning to exist; coming into existence. Athenian democracy
Voters will be electing a three-member national presidency of one Bosnian Muslim, one Bosnian Croat and one Bosnian Serb. They will also vote for a 42-member House of Representatives, with 14 members coming from the Bosnian Serbs and 28 from the Muslim-Croat Federation. The House members will choose 15 delegates - five from each ethnic group - to a House of People. In addition, the Bosnian Serbs and the Federation will each choose its own assembly, and local councils will be elected throughout the country. This will be no two-party election. Indeed, 47 parties have qualified - some of them run by warlords Warlords may refer to:
The lurking See lurk. (messaging, jargon) lurking - The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. issue is whether the elections will be another step toward the partition of Bosnia - with Serbs and Croats joining their respective neighbor countries - or a tentative step toward a unified democracy. In trying to gauge the future, foreign and Bosnian analysts are looking at the municipal elections last month in Mostar, a Bosnian city divided between Croats and Muslims. Voter turnout was high, and for the first time in three years people crossed the confrontation line in large numbers. |
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