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EU Observer (18 December 2020)

By Bodo Weber

As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), citizens of the city of Mostar will for the first time in 12 years vote in local elections on Sunday (20 December).

Since 2010, when the Constitutional Court of BiH suspended part of the election law on Mostar that it deemed discriminatory, political parties have not agreed on a remedy.

A June agreement between the leaders of the two biggest Croat and Bosniak parties, the Croat Democratic Community (HDZ BiH) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA), with the engagement and approval of the EU special representative in BiH and resident US and UK ambassadors has been praised by these same actors as a democratic breakthrough.

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