(3 Oct 2022)
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Sarajevo Bosnia - 3 October 2022
1. Tilt down from Bosnian parliament building to street
2. Street scene
3. Newspaper stand
4. Newspaper headlines
5. Headline reading (Bosnian) "Big defeat for Izetbegovic"
6. Headline reading (Bosnian) "Komsic, Cvijanovic, Becirovic in the presidency"
7. Headlines on newspapers
8. Street scene
9. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Srdjan Maric, 54, resident of Sarajevo:
"Nothing will change, anyone who comes to power - things will remain the same. We will see what will happen, but I do not hope for any better."
10. Street scene
11. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Muhamed Polic, 65, resident of Sarajevo:
"Who would stay and live here? No one will. Whoever has the means to leave (the country), left already. If I was any younger, I would also get across the border. If nothing changes it will be bad for us. very bad...just bad."
12. Street scene
13. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ivana Maric, political analyst:
"Few people will change, but everything will remain the same. Same parties remain in power, same topics remain. These are parties which have no obvious result. These are parties which base their campaign on spreading of nationalistic hatred among people. Simply, we will not move forward for one single step."
14. Maric during interview
15. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Ivana Maric, political analyst:
"This is not about nationalism, this is about widespread crime. They (nationalist parties) use nationalism to cover up their crime. They are cheating on their people, they don't have any results."
16. Street scene
STORYLINE:
Some residents of Sarajevo were despondent on Monday following the weekend's elections, with many doubting that the results would lead to meaningful change.
The first preliminary results released by Bosnia's central election commission early Monday showed cooperation-prone contenders Denis Becirovic and Zeljko Komsic on course to win respective Bosniak and Croat seats in the tripartite presidency.
However, the reformists were likely to be joined by Zeljka Cvijanovic from the strongest Bosnian Serb party – the secessionist and staunchly pro-Russian SNSD.
Speaking to The Associated Press in Sarajevo, one resident said they did "not hope for any better."
Another said that people had been trying to leave the country, adding that "I was any younger, I would also get across the border. If nothing changes it will be bad for us. very bad...just bad."
The sentiment was shared by political analyst Ivana Maric, who told the AP "Few people will change, but everything will remain the same."
"Same parties remain in power, same topics remain. These are parties which have no obvious result. These are parties which base their campaign on spreading of nationalistic hatred among people. Simply, we will not move forward for one single step," she said.
The election included contests for the three members of Bosnia's shared, multiethnic presidency, the president of one of its two highly autonomous parts, and parliament deputies at different, in part overlapping, levels of governance.
If the preliminary results hold, Cvijanovic will take over the post from her political party's boss, Milorad Dodik, who chose to run for the president of Bosnia's Serb-run part rather than seek a second term in the shared, countrywide presidency.
The 1995 peace agreement gave broad powers to the international high representative, the post currently held by Schmidt, including the ability to impose laws and to dismiss officials and civil servants who undermine the country's fragile post-war ethnic balance.
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