But voting was largely on ethnic and linguistic lines, with the Swahili-speaking east voting for Mr Kabila and the Lingala-speaking west largely rejecting him.

但是投票很大程度上是以种族和语言为界的。东部的斯瓦西里语使用者选的是卡比拉而西部林加拉语使用者大多则反对他。

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EU. The West is also dismayed by an electoral law, rammed through by Mr Tudjman's supporters, which fails to enfranchise Croatia's displaced ethnic Serbs while entrenching the voting rights of ethnic Croats in Bosnia and around the world, who, not surprisingly, tend to cast their absentee ballots for Mr Tudjman and his cronies.

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However, he said he was disappointed by the narrow remit of the committee after Gordon Brown said last year that it could address issues including weekend voting, the representation of women and ethnic minorities and whether voting age should be lowered to 16.

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But voting was largely on ethnic and linguistic lines, with the Swahili-speaking east voting for Mr Kabila and the Lingala-speaking west largely rejecting him.

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