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EU Administrator Sets Mostar Elections for June 30 MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Elections in the divided Bosnian city of Mostar will be held June 30, the European Union administrator for Mostar announced Thursday. The voting will be closely watched as an indication of how well the Bosnian peace process is working. The southwestern city is bitterly divided between Muslims and Croats. The elections, originally scheduled for May 31, were postponed when the main Muslim party objected to a provision barring 45,000 Muslim and Serb refugees — almost a third of the city’s pre-war population — from voting. EU officials postponed the elections, then ruled that all Mostar refugees registered as voters in 1991 could vote in Sweden, Norway, Germany and Switzerland. They say only 30,000 of the city’s 100,000 registered voters will be in town on election day. The remaining 70,000 are refugees abroad. Mostar is seen as a test for the whole Muslim-Croat federation, which controls half of Bosnia and is considered a counterweight to Bosnian Serb-held parts. If the federation remains mostly divided along national lines, it could eventually split Bosnia further.

Mostar, A Tale of Two Cities by Berserkistan's Jim Bartlett
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Berserkistan, May 22 · Mostar Elections Focus of Casado-Izetbegovic Meet
Berserkistan, May 1 · Mostar to Hold Elections May 31
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