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Istanbul's popular mayor is leading demands for a major change in the main opposition Republican People's Party - as another test in the form of local elections fast approaches.

The Sarajevo Cantonal Assembly, one of ten cantons in Bosnia's mainly Bosniak and Croat-dominated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, has voted to shorten school classes in the Muslim Ramadan to give extra time to observant pupils and teachers to break the religious fast. 

One of Bosnia's most respected politicians, Bogic Bogicevic - a legend among many in Bosnia for his courage before and during the war of the 1990s - has pulled out the race to become mayor of Sarajevo, prompting dismay among his many admisers.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said on Tuesday that it has ruled that Bosnia and Herzegovina must amend the country's electoral law to allow local elections to be held in Mostar after an 11-year gap.

The latest attempt to find a solution for the deadlock over elections in the Bosnian city of Mostar collapsed on Thursday after the latest meeting of the political parties failed to reach an agreement.

The city will likely have to wait another two years for local elections.

More than 5,000 polling stations opened Sunday at 7am as voters were urged to go out and cast ballots in Bosnia's local elections.

"There is no reason why, on October 2, you shouldn't take a small amount of time to go to the polling station and circle the option that suits you," Ahmed Santic, president of the Central Election Commission, CIK, told the media.

Bosnia has no an effective gambling law, despite having the highest registered number of betting shops per resident in Europe.

"We aren't satisfied by the current regulation," Nermana Mehic-Basara, a neuropsychiatrist and director the Public Institute for Addiction Diseases in Sarajevo, told BIRN on Thursday.