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House Of Peoples Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
The House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Dom naroda Bosne i Hercegovine, Дом народа Босне и Херцеговине) is one of the two chambers of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the other chamber being the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established through the signing of the Dayton Agreement in 1995. It has 15 members equally distributed among the three ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 5 Bosniaks, 5 Serbs, and 5 Croats. The members are appointed by the parliaments of the constituent peoples. Their duty is to make sure that no law is passed unless all three groups agree on it. Chairmen of the House of Peoples List of delegates Bosniak delegates Croat delegates Serb delegates See also *Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina *House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina *Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina References {{National upper houses ...
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Nikola Špirić
Nikola Špirić (, ; born 4 September 1956) is a Bosnian Serb politician who was the 7th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 11 January 2007 until 12 January 2012. He was also the Minister of Finance and Treasury and since 2019 has been a member of the national House of Peoples. Early life and education Born in Drvar, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time FPR Yugoslavia, Špirić completed elementary education in his hometown, high school in Sarajevo and his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Sarajevo. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. His doctoral thesis was in monetary and public finance. Early career Špirić has been an economics professor at the University of Banja Luka since 1992. He held a number of governmental positions including a 2-year term as a representative at the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Milorad Dodik's SNSD party. He was a member of the House of Peoples from 2001 until 2003 a ...
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Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Due to political, social and economic reasons, many Croats migrated to North and South America as well as New Zealand and later Australia, establishing a diaspora in the aftermath of World War II, with grassroots assistance from earlier communities and the Roman Catholic Church. In Croatia (the nation state), 3.9 million people identify themselves as Croats, and constitute about 90.4% of the population. Another 553,000 live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they are one of the three constituent ethnic groups, predominantly living in Western Herzegovina, Central Bosnia and Bosnian Posavina. The minority in Serbia number about 70,000, mostly in Vojvodina. The ...
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Šefik Džaferović
Šefik Džaferović (; born 9 September 1957) is a Bosnian politician who is the 7th and current Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2002 to 2018, he was a member of the national House of Representatives. A high ranking Party of Democratic Action member, Džaferović is the party's current vice president and was also its general secretary. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Sarajevo in 1979. Before entering politics, he worked in judicial institutions. In 1996, Džaferović was appointed member of the Federal House of Peoples. In 2000, he became a member of the national House of Peoples. At the 2002 general election, Džaferović was elected to the national House of Representatives, and served as its member until 2018. Since 2018, he has been serving in the Bosnian Presidency as its Bosniak member, getting elected at the 2018 general election by a narrow margin. Early life and education Džaferović was born in 1957 in th ...
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Mirsad Ćeman
Mirsad Ćeman (born 1955 in Miljanovci, Tešanj) is a Bosnian lawyer and politician, judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He declared ethnic affiliation as a Bosniak. Biography Ćeman graduated in Law from the University of Banja Luka in 1979, working then for the legal service of the Municipality of Tešanj. From 1982 to 1990 he headed the legal service of Energoinvest's "Enker" company in Tešanj. From 1991 to 1993 he also chaired the executive board of Tešanj Municipality. From 1990 until 2006 Ćeman was a member of parliament for the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action in the assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and later Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking part in parliamentary committees on constitutional affairs. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Bosniak delegate for SDA in the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2000 to 2002 he represented the 5th Electoral Unit of the Federation ...
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Democratic People's Alliance
The Democratic National Alliance or Democratic People's Alliance ( sr, Демократски народни савез/Demokratski narodni savez or DNS) is a centre-right political party in Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The head of the DNS is Nenad Nešić. Electoral results Parliamentary elections Presidential elections Mergers *The ''Alliance of National Rebirth'' or ''League of People's Rebirth'' (Савез Народног Препорода, ''Savez Narodnog Preporoda'') was a conservative party led by Mirko Banjac, established in 2002, and merged into DNS in the fall of 2003. At its last legislative elections, 5 October 2002, the party won no seats in the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it won 1 out of 83 in the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska The National Assembly of Republika Srpska (, abbr. НСРС/NSRS) is the legislative body of Republika Srpska, one of two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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Bariša Čolak
Bariša Čolak (born 1 January 1956) is Bosnian Croat politician and lawyer. He is currently a member of the House of Peoples and previously served as Minister of Justice from 2007 to 2015. Čolak was also Minister of Security from 2002 to 2007. He is a member and former president of the Croatian Democratic Union. Early life and education Čolak was born on 1 January 1956 in Široki Brijeg, where he attended elementary and high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar in 1979. He also attended postgraduate studies on subject Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Law, but because of his duties as a minister, study was on halt. Early career From 1979 to 1988, with a break from April 1980 to April 1981, Čolak worked as director of the constructional hardware "Metalac Lištica" which was part of the SOKO company in Mostar. From 1988 to the end of 1993, he worked as a judge in Lištica, renamed Široki Brijeg. Political career Čolak joi ...
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Staša Košarac
Staša Košarac ( sr-cyr, Сташа Кошарац; born 19 March 1975) is a Bosnian Serb politician who is the current Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations. He was also a member of both the national House of Peoples and House of Representatives. Košarac is a member of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats. Early life Košarac was born on 19 March 1975 to Bosnian Serb parents Milorad and Zoranka in Sarajevo, where he finished elementary and then high school '' Đuro Pucar Stari'' in Vogošća. In 2014, he graduated from the Faculty of Business and Industrial Management in Belgrade. Political career Košarac is a member of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, and got his first public position when he was 25 years old as a councilor in the Municipal Assembly of Višegrad. In 2004, he got elected to the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. In 2011, he became a member of the national House of Peoples and was, later on, Chairman of the House of Peop ...
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Ognjen Tadić
Ognjen Tadić ( sr-cyrl, Огњен Тадић; born 20 April 1974) is a Bosnian Serb politician, lawyer, journalist and sociologist who was a member of the national House of Peoples from 2011 to 2019. Previously, he was member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska from 2006 to 2010. Tadić studied at the University of Banja Luka, where he earned degrees in the Faculty of Law and in the Faculty of Political Science. He is a lawyer, journalist and sociologist. Tadić was a prominent figure of the Serb Democratic Party, until he left it in 2017 to join the Democratic People's Alliance a year later. He left the Democratic People's Alliance in 2020. Personal life and education Tadić was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1974. He holds a degree in law and political science from the University of Banja Luka.Ognjen Tadi� ...
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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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Sulejman Tihić
Sulejman Tihić (26 November 1951 – 25 September 2014) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He was a member and later president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA). From 2007 until his death in 2014, Tihić served as member of the national House of Peoples. Born in Bosanski Šamac, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Sarajevo in 1975. Following his graduation, Tihić worked as a judge, prosecutor and a lawyer. During the Bosnian War of 1992–95, he was captured by Serb soldiers and was tortured in concentration camps in both Bosnia and Serbia. Following the war, Tihić entered into politics. Already being a founding member of the SDA, he was named its president in 2001. At the 2002 general election, Tihić was elected Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, serving as its member until 2006. Following his time in the Presidency, Tihić was appointed as member ...
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Party Of Democratic Progress
The Party of Democratic Progress (, abbr. ПДП, PDP) is a centre to centre-right Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded on 26 September 1999. It is the third-largest party in Republika Srpska entity. History The PDP was established in Banja Luka on 26 September 1999. During the founding assembly, Mladen Ivanić was elected as the president of the party, while Branko Dokić and Zoran Đerić were elected as vice presidents. On 28 November 2015, Ivanić left the position of president after 16 years, after which Branislav Borenović became the new president of PDP. International Cooperation The party is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) and International Democrat Union (IDU). In terms of bilateral cooperation with other European parties, PDP maintains strong links with the Conservative Party ( UK), Moderate Party (Sweden), Christian Democratic Union (Germany), SDKU (Slovakia), Austrian People's Party, New Democracy (Greece) and Democratic ...
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Croatian Peasant Party Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
The Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka Bosne i Hercegovine or HSS BiH) is a Croatian political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the legacy and the brand of the historic Croatian Peasant Party from the early 20th Century (led by Stjepan Radić and Vladko Maček) is popular and well-known, there have been couple of splinter groups and various parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina have a similar name, invoking CPP tradition. History HSS BiH was found on 18 April 1993 as an effort led by Ivo Komšić and Napredak to create democratic opposition to HDZ policies. HSS joined HDZ 1990 and other minor Croat parties to form "Croats Together" coalition, challenging HDZ in 2006 elections. In 2007, HSS and the New Croatian Initiative merged. The New Croatian Initiative was formed earlier as a splinter group from the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Krešimir Zubak. The merger was originally named HSS-NHI. After HSS-N ...
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