The Social Democratic Party is perhaps the closest thing to a multiethnic party in Bosnia.
While both parties have multiethnic slates, both resort to racially coded messages, and voters persist in viewing the parties in terms of their historical ethnic power bases.
Mr. Anwar has played a key role in holding together an improbably diverse opposition alliance composed of his own multiethnic party, a conservative Islamic party, Pas, and the left-leaning Democratic Action Party, made up mainly of ethnic Chinese.
Voters are expected instead to elect the Social Democratic Party, a moderate multiethnic party that rejects nationalist politics in favor of economic reform and fighting corruption.
Anwar heads a coalition of parties, which includes his own multiethnic party, that has made the greatest inroads against the country's corrupt masters.
While friction between communities is rare in daily life, Amna Popovac, an activist in Mostar for Nasa Stranka, a multiethnic party struggling to break down barriers, said nationalist political leaders, all of them men, constantly stoke fear of conflict to rally support and avoid tackling real problems.
The current Croat member of the presidency, Zeljko Komsic, a moderate who comes from a multiethnic party, also won another four-year term.
They want to live in states where people have rights and obligations and multiethnic parties.
Both the United States and the European Union had urged Bosnians to vote for reformist and multiethnic parties.
Elsewhere, especially in urban areas like Sarajevo, multiethnic parties are beginning to show real strength.
Macedonian party leaders, in negotiations including the European Union's security chief, Javier Solana, agreed late Monday to form a multiethnic government of national unity in an effort to deprive the separatist guerrillas of grassroots support.
