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Voters were invited to the polls in nationally divided Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday, with little prospect of returning a government that is capable of improving economic prospects.
The official unemployment rate is 44 per cent, with bureaucracy, poverty and corruption all rampant.
Around 3.3 million voters will choose over 500 officials, including a three-member state presidency and parliament.
The country is officially divided into two self-administering regions. Bosnian Serbs will vote for a president and a parliament of Republika Srpska as well as the parliament in Sarajevo.
Voters in the Bosniac-Croat federation will chose MPs for their regional parliament and for parliaments of 10 cantons.
Current Republika Srpska Prime Minister Aleksandar Dzombic has based his election campaign on pledges of Serb secession and Russian support for it.
The country’s Muslim Bosniacs and Catholic Croats, who share the other half, have their own nationalistic disputes but do not favour breaking up the state.
