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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Daria Sito-Sucic

Bosnian elections entrench splits but foreign policy tips West

FILE PHOTO: People hold a ballot in a voting booth during presidential and parliamentary elections at a polling centre in a school in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Elections in Bosnia entrenched divisions between the fragile country's three ethnic groups at a time of deep political crisis but looked set to tip its foreign policy towards the West rather than Russia, preliminary results showed on Monday.

Nationalist parties from all three groups were expected to dominate the national and regional parliaments, based on 70% of ballots counted, according to partial results of a range of elections held on Sunday issued by the election commission.

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