October 8 (SeeNews) - In SARAJEVO story "Bosnian Serb nationalist leader keeps seat in collective presidency - prelim election results" dated October 8, please read the headline as "Bosnian Serb nationalist leader wins seat in collective presidency - prelim election results" (corrects verb), and the first paragraph "...Dodik has won a seat in the country's tripartite interethnic presidency..." instead of "...Dodik has kept his seat in the country's tripartite interethnic presidency...".
A corrected version follows:
SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), October 8 (SeeNews) – Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik has won a seat in the country's tripartite interethnic presidency in Sunday's elections, the electoral commission said after ballots cast in 43.42% of the polling stations were counted.
Dodik, leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, won 55.15% of the votes cast in Bosnia's Serb Republic, the president of the electoral commission, Branko Petric, said in a video file posted on the YouTube channel of Al Jazeera Balkans late on Sunday.
Voter turnout stood at 57.3% in the Serb Republic entity.
The Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the three-member body which collectively serves as head of state of the country. The Presidency consists of three members: one Bosniak and one Croat elected from the Federation and one Bosnian Serb elected from the Serb Republic.
In the Federation entity, Sefik Dzaferovic of the Party of Democratic Action won the seat of the Bosniak member of the council with 37.97% of the vote amid a turnout of 51.25%. Zeljko Komsic, the leader of the Democratic Front party, won the Croat seat in the council after securing 49.47% of the votes, Petric said.
The turnout in the Brcko District was 46.81%, Petric noted.
According to the Dayton agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into two entities -- the Serb Republic and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, covering 49% and 51% of the country's territory, respectively. The Brcko District, functioning under a decentralised system of local government, was created in 2000, out of land from both entities to reflect its multi-ethnic nature.
The general elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 7. Voters elected the national Presidency and House of Representatives, as well as the Presidents and legislatures of the two entities.