The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian: ''Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine'' (SDP BiH) / Социјалдемократска партија Босне и Херцеговине), also simply known as the Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska partija (SDP) / Социјалдемократска партија) is a

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...

. It is officially multi-ethnic, but gathers most support from

Bosniaks The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzeg ...

History

Origin

The SDP BiH has its roots in the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 1909. The party was founded by workers to defend and represent their rights and interests, and consisted of members of all

ethnic groups An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

. On 20 April 1920, the Social Democratic Party became part of the

League of Communists of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

. The SDP BiH was reestablished on 27 December 1992. The party was enlarged by the inclusion of the Social Democrats of BiH party to the original SDP.

Timeline

At the first post-war election in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996, the SDP BiH appeared in a coalition with five other parties within the "Joint List". Candidates for the Bosniak and Croat members of the

Presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by ...

, Sead Avdić and

Ivo Komšić Ivo Komšić (born 16 June 1948) is a Bosnian doctor, professor, politician and former mayor of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a key figure in the talks that led to the end of the Bosnian War with the Dayton Agreement, and ...

, were not elected. On 6 April 1997,

Zlatko Lagumdžija Zlatko Lagumdžija (born 26 December 1955) is a Bosnian former politician who served as the 4th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2002. He also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2002 and ...

was elected as the SDP BiH's new president. At the 2000 parliamentary election, the SDP BiH won the most seats in the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

. On 22 February 2001,

Božidar Matić Božidar Matić (; 8 September 1937 – 12 May 2016) was a Bosnian politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from February to July 2001. Additionally, he was Minister of Finance and Treasury during t ...

was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers. At the 2006 general election,

Željko Komšić Željko Komšić (; born 20 January 1964) is a Bosnian politician and diplomat who is the 6th and current Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also its current chairman, since 2021. Previously, he was a member of the na ...

was elected Croat member of the Presidency. He was re-elected at the 2010 general election. On 7 December 2014,

Nermin Nikšić Nermin Nikšić (; born 27 December 1960) is a Bosnian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2011 to 2015. He is the current president of the Social Democratic Party and is a former membe ...

was elected president of the party, succeeding Lagumdžija. On the eve of the 2020 municipal elections, the SDP BiH entered into a three-party liberal coalition with the parties

People and Justice People and Justice (, abbreviated NiP) is a centre-right political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party was founded on 12 March 2018. History People and Justice was founded on 12 March 2018, after Elmedin Konaković resigned from all par ...

and Our Party. The coalition, also supported by the Union for a Better Future and the People's European Union, announced

Denis Bećirović Denis Bećirović (born 28 November 1975) is a Bosnian politician, professor and historian who is the 8th and current Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously, he was a member of the national House of Peoples from ...

's candidacy in the Bosnian general election on 21 May 2022, running for Presidency member and representing the Bosniaks. At the general election, held on 2 October 2022, Bećirović was elected to the Presidency, having obtained 57.37% of the vote.

Ideology

The Social Democratic Party is a

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democratic party. The program vision corresponds to values and ideas of

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in Europe and the world. The SDP BiH is a

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party that is particularly interested in improving the

social status Social status is the level of social value a person is considered to possess. More specifically, it refers to the relative level of respect, honour, assumed competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society. St ...

of workers, rural population, students, youth, veterans, women, pensioners and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the

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List of presidents

Elections

Parliamentary elections

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Presidency elections

Cantonal elections

References

Sources

SDP sada broji 40.000 članova, svakog mjeseca broj se poveća za 464 člana
at sdp.ba

External links

Official website
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