Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina explained

Country:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Party for
Native Name:Stranka za
Leader:Semir Efendić
Founder:Haris Silajdžić
Headquarters:Maršala Tita 9a, 71000 Sarajevo
Split:Party of Democratic Action
Ideology:Social conservatism
Bosnian unitarism[1]
Pro-Europeanism
Atlanticism
Position:Centre[2]
Seats1 Title:HoR BiH
Seats2 Title:HoP BiH
Seats3 Title:HoR FBiH
Seats4 Title:HoP FBiH
Seats5 Title:NA RS
Website:www.zabih.ba

The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu, abbreviated SBiH) is a centrist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party is one of the most prominent centrist and the most prominent unitarianist party in the country as it staunchly opposes federalism and devolution of political power along ethnic lines by the means of federal entities – i.e. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.

List of presidents

width=180Name
(Born–Died)
PortraitTerm of OfficeDays
align=center style="background: ; color:black;"1Haris Silajdžić
(b. 1945)
13 April 1996 6 March 2012
align=center style="background: ; color:black;"2Amer Jerlagić
(b. 1967)
6 March 2012 23 April 2021
align=center style="background: ; color:black;"3Semir Efendić
(b. 1983)
23 April 2021 present

Elections

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina! Year! Leader! #! Popular vote! %! HoR! Seat change! HoP! Seat change! Government
1996Haris Silajdžić5th 93,8163.91NewNew
19981st583,94533.83 1 1
20005th168,99511.34 2 0
20023rd 136,09011.07 1 0
20063rd219,48715.54 2 0
20107th86,6695.28 6 1
2014Amer Jerlagić12th25,6771.57 2 0
201817th17,8301.08 0 0
2022Semir Efendić13th26,4801.67 0 1

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina! Year! Leader! #! Popular vote! %! HoR! Seat change! HoP! Seat change! Government
1996Haris Silajdžić4th98,2077.35NewNew
19981st456,45849.20 58 22
20004th128,83314.85 47 16
20024th109,84315.70 6 1
20062nd190,14822.16 9
20105th 78,086 7.63 15 9
2014Amer Jerlagić8th 32,7903.30 6
201812th 23,0072.30 3 1
2022Semir Efendić8th36,4653.74 4

Presidency elections

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina! Election year! #! Candidate! Votes! %! Representing! Elected?
19962ndHaris Silajdžić124,39613.6%Bosniaks
19981stAlija Izetbegović511,54186.8%Bosniaks
20022ndHaris Silajdžić179,72634.8%Bosniaks
20061stHaris Silajdžić350,52062.8%Bosniaks
20103rdHaris Silajdžić117,24025.10%Bosniaks
20186thAmer Jerlagić9,6551.66%Bosniaks
20221stŽeljko Komšić227,54055.80%Croats

Cantonal elections

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Notes and References

  1. Vogel. T. K.. 2006. 2006: A watershed year. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenge of Legitimacy: FAST Country Risk Profile Bosnia and Herzegovina. 12–26. Both Dodik and Silajdzic are pursuing the main strategies that politicians from their ethnic group have been pursuing since Dayton: the Bosnian Serbs’ primary strategy to keep power and protect the integrity of their community has been to preserve a strong RS, with only grudging transfers of responsibility to the central government, while the Bosniaks’ primary strategy has been to build an effective central state at the expense of entity power..
  2. Web site: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nordsieck. Wolfram. 2018. Parties and Elections in Europe.