Bosnia's Three-Seat Presidency Is Set to Go Nationalist
Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-member presidency is set to be dominated by nationalists from the three major ethnic groups, Deutsche Welle reports — including Zeljka Cvijanovic, who was backed by Milorad Dodik, the Serb secessionist leader DW describes as disqualified. PBS NewsHour notes that around 3.4 million voters were eligible to choose the three presidency members and lawmakers for the national parliament. If that projection holds, a body built as a multi-ethnic institution ends up with all three of its chairs in nationalist hands, which is a result worth reading as a measure of party machinery as much as of public mood. The sharpest detail is Dodik's role: a man DW calls a disqualified secessionist is nonetheless positioned to have backed a winner in the joint presidency he would prefer to see weakened.
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A presidency with three members, nationalist blocs set to occupy each of them, and 3.4 million voters choosing — that is an odd advertisement for the power-sharing idea.
The seat count is the least interesting part. DW calls Dodik a disqualified secessionist, and the candidate he backed still looks set to take a chair in the joint institution. That is the sentence to underline.