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Bosnia's main Serbian party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, on Saturday re-elected its leader, Milorad Dodik, at a party congress in Eastern Sarajevo for another four years.

The SNSD also elected other key party bodies and adopted several declarations, setting out its long-term strategic orientation. One called for a referendum for the independence of Bosnia’s Serbian-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, RS, in 2018, unless Bosnia’s political and administrative settlement under the original 1995 Dayton peace accord is restored by then.

The main Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, has threatened to block the work of Bosnia’s long-awaited new state government, the Council of Ministers, which is holding its first session on Tuesday. 
 
Following a meeting of the party leadership on Monday, SNSD officials pledged to expand their boycott of state institutions, which is already affecting the work of the state parliament.   
 

Bosnia’s ruling coalition has effectively collapsed after the three main parties in the Federation failed to agree on the makeup of the entity's new government on Sunday. 

This development puts in question the recent agreement on the formation of the new state government, and threatens to push the country deeper into political chaos five months after the elections. 

Talks were held in Sarajevo on Sunday aimed at finding an agreement on how to distribute eight Bosniak, five Croat and three Serb ministerial positions in the new Federation government. 

Los tres miembros de la Presidencia multiétnica de Bosnia han nombrado este lunes a Denis Zvizdic como nuevo primer ministro del país balcánico, en un paso adelante de cara a la formación de un Gobierno nacional que pueda adoptar las reformas requeridas desde la UE.    El nombramiento de Zvizdic, hasta ahora líder cantonal de Sarajevo y presidente del Parlamento de la Federación de Bosnia y Herzegovina, se había visto retrasado por las dificultades en la designación de nuevas autoridades en este territorio bosniaco-croata.

Bosnia's two main Serbian and Croatian parties, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, and the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, agreed in Mostar to join entity and state-level governments together. They said they now seek a partner among the Bosniaks.

At a meeting on October 30 held in the HDZ's headquarters, SNSD president Milorad Dodik and the HDZ's Dragan Covic agreed on the formation of new governments and invited Bosnia's main Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and others, to join them.

Damir Hadzic and Nermin Niksic, two key figures in Bosnia's Social Democratic Party, SDP, have resigned decision-making posts in the party after its debacle in last Sunday's elections.

At a crisis press conference on October 16, the SDP said an extraordinary party congress would soon choose a new leadership.

Zlatko Lagumdzija, the veteran party leader, confirmed that he would not be running for the post again.

Los colegios electorales en Bosnia-Herzegovina cerraron hoy a las 19:00 horas (17:00 GMT) después de doce horas de votación en las elecciones generales del país, en las que se elegían a los representantes públicos de las instituciones centrales y de sus dos entes autónomos.

Cuatro horas antes del cierre el 36,6% de los votantes habían ejercido su derecho a voto, según informó a la prensa Stjepan Mikic, presidente de la Comisión Electoral Central (CIK).

Valentin Inzko, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), on Friday urged BiH citizens to vote in the upcoming general elections this month.

During a visit to Prijedor in northern BiH, Inzko said in a statement that voters can "decide their destiny" if they actively participate the voting.

"Voters have the right to choose and it is important that they choose a better future for themselves," said Inzko, "If you do not go to the polls, then your fate will be decided by others."