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Paragraph 91
 

Furthermore, even for “constituent people” of the Bosnia and Herzegovina, their right to stand for presidential elections might be unreasonably restricted by residency-based limitations. For instance, a Serb registered in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina or a Bosniak or Croat registered in Republika Srpska cannot stand for presidency of the state. Thus, the ECtHR recommended that the law should be amended to remove ethnicity and residency-based limitations (Pilav v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 41939/07, 9 September 2016).