B&H holds a record in the region according to the number of registered political parties, so at this point it is not possible to predict how they will compete in the general elections scheduled for October, because some of the parties are disappearing, while others are being established, according to local media and reported by Nezavisne.com.
The Central Election Commission confirmed that currently in B&H, at least on paper, there are 183 political parties, and of the elections conducted in 2010, 77 political parties were deleted from the court registers. According to available information, after B&H, Croatia has the most political parties in the region (112), followed by Serbia (around 90), Macedonia (53), Montenegro (45), and 30 in Slovenia.
Spokesperson of the Commission Maksida Pirić said to ‘Dnevni Avaz’ that in B&H, it is the case that data is constantly changing.
‘’So far, we have sent to the courts 146 requests to delete parties from court registers’’, said Pirić, adding that these are parties who do not have any activities for a long period of time, nor do they fulfill their obligation to submit reports on financial operations.
It is anticipated that more parties will appear by the planed elections in B&H, because the Commission is constantly getting new questions related to the legal process of registration.
In the municipal elections, which were conducted in B&H in 2012, 83 political parties competed. Among them, there were 28 that did not exist in the municipal elections in 2010 or in the local elections in 2008. Even 19 of them had candidates only in one municipality, in which the founders of the party live and work.
(Source: Depo Portal)
