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Interesting, the UN High Rep for Bosnian Sittlichkeit is to stand down sometime after a demarche to the home office on Tuesday.  I know nothing about this, and have heard nothing about this, but apparently there were some procedural issues with his appointment, given the stasis between the Great Powers on the East Side.  And there's much banter of a third entity in recent weeks.  Apparently the US is behind much of this (though I doubt that it's coming from Foggy Bottom).

Contra Ockham, of course -- entia non sunt ponenda sine necessitas, or something along those lines.

Complexly ignorant of the local politics, of course, but on the afternoon that I spent looking into it one day in a coffeehouse (the Western chain in Sarajevo -- one thing about the Balkans I didn't get used to was table service coffee), it struck me that an electoral college approach might help to preserve democratic legitimacy while allowing the actual powers to hold power (always important).  Everyone votes for the electors, and then the electors negotiate among themselves to find which of their potential candidates is most acceptable to the others, and balance things that way. 

Again, I have no clue what I'm talking about.