The leader of Bosnian Serb nationalists alleged Monday that international election supervisors had falsified poll results to prevent his party from winning a parliamentary majority.
“It is obvious that these results are false,” said Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of the country’s collective presidency.
Krajisnik spoke a day after official results were released that showed his supporters had failed to secure a parliamentary majority in elections held last month in Bosnia’s Serb territory.
The Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and the allied Radical party together won 39 seats, three short of a majority in the 83-seat Bosnian Serb national assembly.
Krajisnik accused members of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) of fixing the results.
“Every child going to elementary school knows how to count, and we are astounded by what the OSCE has counted,” he said. “I have the feeling someone is tailoring or engineering our parliament, and we must stand up against this. There can be no constitution of parliament on the basis of tailored results.”
He said the SDS would file a complaint with the OSCE, which has organized three postwar elections in two years. The OSCE deployed 1,000 international supervisors to oversee the elections, called after Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic–a bitter rival of the nationalists–dissolved the parliament in July.
