Bosnia holds national elections on Sunday that could affect its European Union membership bid and the balance of influence between the United States and Russia. Voters are choosing the country’s central tripartite presidency and national parliament, alongside regional legislatures in the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, with preliminary results expected from Monday. The election follows economic stagnation, slow EU accession talks and a political crisis in the country of 3 million people, whose population has declined for 25 years as investment stalls, corruption persists and young people leave. The vote pits the Bosniak SDA, Serb SNSD and Croat HDZ BiH against multi-ethnic opposition coalitions led by the Social Democratic Party. Poliwave tracking puts the pro-European SDA at 21.4% nationally, ahead of SDP at 16.7%, while SNSD leads in Republika Srpska with 34.2%. The election also unfolds amid renewed international competition over Bosnia, including disputes involving Milorad Dodik, the High Representative, EU accession conditions and a $1.5 billion pipeline project for US natural gas.