🇧🇦🗳️ Preliminary results from 80% of polling stations:

🇧🇦 Bosniak seat
Denis Bećirović (incumbent) — 38.03% — SDP, centre-left / social democratic
Bakir Izetbegović — 34.25% — SDA, centre-right / conservative
Semir Efendić — 25.57% — SBiH, conservative / centre-right
Fahrudin Radončić — 2.16% — SBB, centre-right / liberal-conservative

🇷🇸 Serb seat
Željka Cvijanović (incumbent) — 55.6% — SNSD, Serb nationalist / conservative / right-wing
Marinko Božović — 26.8% — SDS, conservative / centre-right
Nebojša Vukanović — 17.6% — Za pravdu i red, anti-establishment / centre-right

🇭🇷 Croat seat
Darijana Filipović — 48.19% — HDZ BiH, conservative / right-wing
Slaven Kovačević — 28.79% — DF, left-wing / civic-oriented
Zdenko Lučić — 23.02% — Croatian opposition bloc, centre-right / conservative

Results remain preliminary and are based on approximately 80% of processed polling stations.

🇧🇦 🇭🇷 First time since 2018 that Croats will be represented by an actual Croat. The previous member of the Presidency representing Croats was Zeljko Komsic, a left-wing politician elected with Bosniak Muslim votes who did not identify as an ethnic Croat.

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Milorad Dodik has declared victory for SNSD at all levels, saying the party would have been “politically dead” without Donald Trump’s victory.

“If it weren’t for Trump’s magnificent victory, we would probably be political dead men today. But thanks to the new environment, we are now political winners,” Dodik said.

🇦🇱🇺🇦 According to the prime minister of Albania, there's no way Ukraine ever gets admitted to the EU using the standard procedure.

He added that anyone who's claiming it is clearly lying.

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🇲🇪🇪🇺 Montenegro may not be able to translate the entire body of EU legislation into Montenegrin before joining the European Union.

As a result, the EU has reportedly proposed that Montenegro temporarily use Croatian as an official EU language after accession, until the necessary translations into the official languages of Montenegrin and Serbian are completed.