Voting begins in Bosnia election but little expected to change

Polls opened in Bosnia on Sunday in a general election that is unlikely to bring any structural change (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Polls opened in Bosnia on Sunday in a general election that is unlikely to bring any structural change despite palpable disappointment in the small, ethnically divided Balkan country with the long-established cast of sectarian political leaders.

The election includes races for various levels of government that are part of one of the world’s most complicated institutional set-ups agreed upon in a US-sponsored peace agreement, which ended more than three-and-a-half years of bloodshed in the 1990s between Bosnia’s three main ethnic groups: Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.