3 members of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina elected

Sarajevo [Bosnia and Herzegovina], October 4: Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have elected ZeljkaCvijanovic, Denis Becirovic, and ZeljkoKomsic to serve as members of the tripartite Presidency of BiH, according to the official count published by the country's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) on Monday.
More than 90 percent of votes had been counted by CEC by the time of the announcement.
According to the election law of BiH, Bosniak and Croat members of the Presidency of BiH are elected by citizens of the Federation of BiH. Meanwhile, the Serb member of the Presidency is elected by the citizens of RepublikaSrpska.
ZeljkoKomsic, 58-year-old, was re-elected for his second four-year term as the Croat member of the Presidency. A war veteran with a law degree, he has already served a double Presidency term after being elected in 2006.
Komsic left the Social Democratic Party of BiH in 2012 to become the founder and leader of the Democratic Front, a multi-ethnic social-democratic and social-liberal political party.
The second member of the Presidency, Denis Becirovic, is vice president of the multi-ethnic Social Democratic Party of BiH. The 47-year-old was born in Tuzla, an industrial city some 120 km north of the capital Sarajevo.
Becirovic was elected as a member of the Parliament of BiH for three consecutive terms between 2006 and 2018, when he unsuccessfully ran for the Presidency of BiH. This year, he had more success and outran his opponent Bakir Izetbegovic, head of the Party of Democratic Activity.
The third member of the Presidency is 55-year-old ZeljkaCvijanovic, a high-ranked member of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD). SNSD is a governing party in RepublikaSrpska, led by MiloradDodik, a current member of the Presidency of BiH.
On Sunday, about 3.4 million registered voters in BiH went to vote to elect members of the Presidency of BiH, the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, and the 12 parliaments on the country's lower government levels.
A record number of 7,258 candidates, including 17 independent candidates, from 72 political parties and 38 coalitions, ran for public office in this year's general elections in BiH.
These are the eighth general elections since 1996, as BiH got its Constitution as a part of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH, also known as the Dayton peace agreement, which put an end to the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia.
Source: Xinhua