In the Republic of Srpska, the Serbian part of the country, the regional representatives and the president are elected. Observers assume that Serb leader Milord Dodik will once again become President of the Republic of Srpska. In the Muslim-Croatian federation, elections are taking place for a bicameral parliament, which will then appoint a president. The complex and poorly functioning political system in the Balkan state emerged from the 1995 Dayton Agreement, which ended the civil war of the 1990s with 100,000 dead.