21.  OSCE barred two candidates from the ruling Serb party in the northern town of Bosanski Brod, where local authorities falsified papers for registration of refugees.

22.  Serb parties have registered and formed a coalition to run in the elections, but it is not clear whether Serb citizens will actually vote in the ballot.

23.  Serb parties opposed such a deal, fearing it would make the ethnic division of postwar Bosnia meaningless.

24.  Rivals ignored her decree and threw her out of the main Serb party.

25.  Serb parties oppose such a deal, fearing it would make the ethnic division of postwar Bosnia meaningless.

26.  Serb parties have registered and formed a coalition to run in the elections, but it is not clear whether Serbs will actually vote.

27.  Several Serb parties announced they backed Ivanic for premier, which would appear to be enough support to win a parliamentary vote if and when it occurs.

28.  Stanimirovic, a moderate who heads the Serb party in the region, told reporters on Sunday in Vukovar, the main Serb-held town.

29.  The general secretary of the Serb party, Vlado Verkes, protested the decision.

30.  The current president and a Western favorite, Biljana Plavsic, is trailing the candidate of Serb hard-line parties, Nikola Poplasen, the international sources said.