Elvira Abdić-Jelenović | |
Office: | Member of the Municipal Council of Velika Kladuša |
Term Start: | October 2016 |
Office2: | President of theLabour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Term Start2: | 28 December 2013 |
Predecessor2: | Office established |
Office3: | Croat delegatein the Federal House of Peoples |
Term Start3: | 25 January 2007 |
Term End3: | 15 January 2015 |
Birth Date: | 7 September 1967 |
Birth Place: | Karlovac, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Party: | Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2013)Democratic People's Union (1993–2013) |
Spouse: | Robert Jelenović[1] |
Relations: | Fikret Abdić (father) |
Residence: | Croatia |
Alma Mater: | University of Rijeka |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Engineer |
Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 7 September 1967) is a Bosnian politician. She is the president of the Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 2013. Prior to that, she was a long-year member of the Democratic People's Union, a party founded by her father Fikret Abdić, from which she and her father were banned after internal changes within the party.
Abdić-Jelenović was born in Karlovac.[2] Her father is the Bosnian politician, businessman and convicted war criminal Fikret Abdić.[3]
Abdić Jelenović studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Rijeka. In 2006 she was elected to the Federal Parliament as a Croat representative in the House of Peoples.[2]