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The biggest surprise of the Bosnian elections last Sunday was not found in the results themselves. As the votes were being counted, the country’s peace envoy Christian Schmidt announced that he would be changing one of the country’s three constitutions — specifically, the one pertaining to the entity of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) — as well as its electoral law. The public outcry was immediate, with some of his critics calling the High Representative’s move “an illiberal putsch”. But who is the High Representative, what did he change, and how does his decision affect Bosnia…