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2006 Bosnian General Election
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 October 2006. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Presidency as well as national, entity, and cantonal governments. The elections for the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, House of Representatives were divided into two; one for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one for Republika Srpska. In the presidential election, voters in the Federation elected Bosniak Haris Silajdžić and Croat Željko Komšić, while voters in Republika Srpska elected Serb Nebojša Radmanović. The Party of Democratic Action emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 9 of the 42 seats. Background Analysts claimed that the 2006 election would be the most important since Bosnia and Herzegovina's independence from Yugoslavia, and the subsequent Bosnian War. With the previous government failing to agree reforms to the constitution, and Bosnian ...
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Presidency Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
The presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine, separator=" / ", Предсједништво Босне и Херцеговине) is a three-member body which collectively serves as head of state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to Article V of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the presidency comprises three members: one Bosniak, one Serb, and one Croat. The Bosniak and Croat members are elected from a joint constituency in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whilst the Serb member is elected from voters in Republika Srpska. The three members elected at any one election serve a collective four-year term. Individuals are able to serve no more than two consecutive four-year terms, although there are no overall term limits. Although the unsubdivided body is the collective head of state, one member is designated as chairperson. The position of chairperson rotates twice around the three members every eight months, wi ...
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Croatian Democratic Union Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( hr, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine or HDZ BiH) is a Christian democratic, nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP). Its headquarters is in Mostar. History The party was formed on 18 August 1990, with the first party convention held in Sarajevo. It has participated in all multiparty elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1991. It regularly won the support of the Croat electorate up to 2000 and took part in forming the government. It returned to power in 2002, where it remained until 2010. Since 2014, the party has once again been in power. In the October 2002 general election, the party was part of the "Croatian Coalition" (''Hrvatska koalicija'') which won 9.5% of the popular vote and five out of 42 seats in the national House of Representatives and 16 out of 98 seat ...
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Fikret Abdić
Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939) is a Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša-based agriculture company Agrokomerc into one of the biggest conglomerates in SFR Yugoslavia. He won the popular vote in the Bosnian presidential elections of 1990. In the early 1990s, during the Bosnian War, Abdić declared his opposition to the official Bosnian government, and established the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a small and short-lived province in the northwestern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of the town of Velika Kladuša and nearby villages. The mini-state existed between 1993 and 1995 and was allied with the Army of Republika Srpska. In 2002, he was convicted on charges of war crimes against Bosniaks loyal to the Bosnian government by a court in Croatia and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, which was later reduced on appeal to 15 years by the Supreme Court of Croatia. On 9 Ma ...
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Democratic People's Union
The Democratic People's Union ( Bosnian: ''Demokratska narodna zajednica'', DNZ) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1993 and first led by Fikret Abdić. In 2014 the Democratic People's Union saw a major split when large number of its members led by Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (Fikret's daughter) founded a new party, the Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to this split, the DNZ now has only 2 out of 28 members of the Velika Kladuša Velika Kladuša ( sr-cyrl, Велика Кладуша, ; lit. "Great Kladuša") is a town and municipality located in Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the far n ... Municipality Council, while the new Labour Party gained a large majority. References * External linksWebsite of the political party Bosniak political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Velika Kladuša {{BosniaHerzegovina-party-stub ...
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Marko Pavić
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Mladen Ivanić
Mladen Ivanić ( sr-cyr, Младен Иванић, ; born 16 September 1958) is a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 6th Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 17 November 2014 until 20 November 2018. He is the founder, member and former president of the Party of Democratic Progress. Ivanić also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 23 December 2002 until 11 January 2007. He was the 7th Prime Minister of Republika Srpska as well. Early life and education Born in Sanski Most, Ivanić has lived in Banja Luka since 1971. His teenage years were marked by the breaking of the school globe in Gimnazija Banja Luka. He earned his university diploma in economics there. He then received a doctorate in Belgrade; the thesis was titled ''Contemporary Marxist political economy in the West''. He undertook post-Doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim and the University of Glasgow. Upon completion of his studies, he worked as a journalist. From 1985 to ...
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Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović
Mladen Ivanković Lijanović (born 22 August 1960 in Duvno (now Tomislavgrad), Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian politician and businessman. He is the founder and leader of the People's Party Work for Betterment. Biography Lijanović was born in the rural part of the Tomislavgrad municipality into a family which included three brothers and a sister. The family wealth was made in the meat processing industry prior to the beginning of the Bosnian War. Lijanović twice ran unsuccessfully for the Bosnian Croat seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina The presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine, separator=" / ", Предсједништво Босне и Херцеговине) is a three-member body which collectively serves as head of state of .... In 2006, his brother, Jerko, was elected to the Bosnian parliament. In 2010, his political party gained many Bosnian Croat votes that had previously often gon ...
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People's Party Work For Prosperity
People's Party Work for Prosperity ( Bosnian and Croatian: ''Narodna stranka Radom za Boljitak''; abbr. NSRzB) is a multi-ethnic party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded and is run by Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović, from Široki Brijeg , , nickname = , motto = , image_map = BiH municipality location Široki Brijeg.svg , map_alt = , map_caption = Location o .... References Liberal parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Secularism in Bosnia and Herzegovina {{BosniaHerzegovina-party-stub ...
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Sefer Halilović
Sefer Halilović (born 6 January 1952) is a former general and commanding officer of the Bosnian Army during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and acquitted of all charges in 2005. Early life and education Halilović was born in Taševo, a hamlet in the Prijepolje municipality in the Sandžak geographical region of Serbia, then Yugoslavia. He attended the military academy in Belgrade in 1971 for three years and in 1975 he attended the military school in Zadar where he became an Officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). From 1980 until the war he served in Vinkovci as an Army security officer. On 31 August 1990 he went to Belgrade and attended a two-year course at the school for commanders. Career When Halilović left the Yugoslav People's Army in September 1991 he was a professional military officer and held the rank of major. He went to Bosnia and Herzegovina, cr ...
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Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party ( bs, Bosanskohercegovačka patriotska stranka, BPS) is Bosnian nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by the former commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sefer Halilović Sefer Halilović (born 6 January 1952) is a former general and commanding officer of the Bosnian Army during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former .... In 1998 it became a party involved in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Elections Parliamentary elections Presidency elections References External linksOfficial website Bosniak political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian nationalism {{BosniaHerzegovina-party-stub ...
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Božo Ljubić
Božo Ljubić (born 30 September 1949) is a Bosnian Croat politician who is the current president of the Supreme Council of the Croatian National Assembly. Formerly, he was a member of both the national House of Peoples and national House of Representatives. Ljubić served as Minister of Communication and Traffic from 2007 to 2009 as well. He was a prominent figure of the Croatian Democratic Union, until he left it in 2006 to establish the Croatian Democratic Union 1990. Ljubić the party in 2014. Biography Ljubić was a member of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ BiH). He came to prominence when in June 2005 he opposed the internal election of Dragan Čović to the party presidency, claiming electoral fraud. In April 2006, the rift between Ljubić and the main party line escalated, and he led the formation of the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ 1990). The new party was welcomed by the Roman Catholic bishop of Banja Luka Franjo Komarica and the ...
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Croats Together
Croats Together ( hr, Hrvatsko zajedništvo) was an electoral alliance in Bosnia and Herzegovina consisting of the Croatian Democratic Union 1990, the Croatian Peasant Party, the Croatian Christian Democratic Union, the Croatian Democratic Union and the Croatian Christian Democrats. In the 2006 general elections it won two seats in the national House of Representatives and seven seats in the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condi ....400 - Zastupnički/predstavnički Dom Parlamen ...
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