We have topic in Croatian, here we can discuss all about Stolac in English.

The repeated municipal election in Stolac is being held today, after the regular election was violently aborted 4 months ago. Muslim parties and candidates have been announcing for weeks that they are going to boycott the repeated election.
As we can see today, Muslims have been voted on a large scale during the afternoon.

The final results of the municipal election in Stolac:

Turnout: 7.540 out of 11.404 total number of voters or 75%.

HDZ BiH won 49.82 percent or 3.654 votes. The Initiative for Stolac won 40.71 percent or 2.986 votes.

Croatian Coalition for Stolac HSP-HDZ 1990. won 305 votes, and the independent candidate Vidoje Maslać won 281 votes.

SIP announced yesterday evening that the new (old) mayor has became Stjepan Bošković again, winning 4.276 votes out of 7.180 valid votes from this municipality. His opponent Mato Komšić won 2.904 votes.

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article ... 02-20-2017

Bosnian Croats Win Re-run Poll in Divided Stolac

Record turnout in the bitterly divided southern Bosnian town, where last year’s election was scrapped following violent episodes, results in victory for the main ethnic Croatian party.

The main Bosnian Croat party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, pulled off an expected victory in the heavily monitored renewed elections in the divided southwestern town of Stolac, Bosnia's Central Election Commission reported.

HDZ candidate Stjepan Boskovic was elected new-old mayor of Stolac and the HDZ also won 49 per cent of the votes for the town council.

The election on Sunday, which was closely monitored by the Central Election Commission, the security forces and independent observers, passed off without incident and with only few sporadic irregularities, officials said.

The Central Election Commission said the voter turnout was high at 75.57 per cent, or 7,566 voters.

The elections were expected to resolve a dispute between an ethnic Bosniak-led opposition coalition and the HDZ.

It is also hoped the result will to put an end to growing tensions between ethnic Croats and Bosniaks in Stolac in general since last year’s failed local election.

A coalition of mainly Bosniak parties, running under the name “Initiative for Stolac” last year claimed that the HDZ had only retained power in the town by rigging every local election since the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia.

Violence erupted on October 2, on election day, as opposition Bosniak activists said they tried to stop Bosnian Croat voters from using irregular documents to cast ballots.

Electoral disputes led to a physical altercation between the Bosniak mayoral candidate and the ethnic Croat head of the local election commission.

Order was restored by authorities but the voting was then cancelled and no ballots were counted. Since then, each side has sued the other in various courts.

The Central Election Commission meanwhile removed the Bosniak mayoral candidate from the ballot as well as three other Bosniaks who ran for the municipal assembly for having disrupted the voting process.

It also removed the head of the local election commission and three of its members for election irregularities.

Bosniaks in the town then said they would boycott the elections because their representative were not on the mayoral ballot – which contained only two Croats, the HDZ’s long-running mayor Stjepan Boskovic, and Mato Komsic, representing a marginal party.

But on Sunday, the Initiative for Stolac, which had initiated the re-run boycott, called on its supporters to vote after all.

Residents packed polling stations and brought the turnout to 75.57 per cent by the end of the day – much higher the overall turnout across Bosnia last October, which was about 53 per cent.

The Initiative for Stolac won 40 per cent of the votes and will now participate in the town council.

What is it with the surname Komšić and left wing politics in BiH?

An attempt of electoral deception by Stolac Muslims was failed the day before yesterday. Bošković and HDZ have timely thwarted this try.

As HDZ BiH won 49.82 percent or 3.654 votes, I think HDZ was short only for 20-30 votes of gaining majority in the town council?