Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 7 September 1967) is a Bosnian politician. She is the president of the

Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Laburistička stranka Bosne i Hercegovine) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina based in Velika Kladuša, Una-Sana Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which serves as its main ...

, founded in 2013. Prior to that, she was a long-year member of the

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 ...

, a party founded by her father

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 S ...

, from which she and her father were banned after internal changes within the party.

Biography

Abdić-Jelenović was born in

Karlovac Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Zagre ...

. Her father is the Bosnian politician and businessman,

. Abdić Jelenović studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the

University of Rijeka The University of Rijeka ( hr, Sveučilište u Rijeci) is in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje, Istria and Lika. The University of Rijeka is composed of eleven faculties, one art academy, ...

. In 2006 she was elected to the Federal Parliament as a Croat representative in the House of Peoples.

References

Living people 1967 births People from Karlovac Bosnia and Herzegovina politicians Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims Croatian Muslims Democratic People's Union politicians {{BosniaHerzegovina-politician-stub