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Denis Zvizdić (born 9 June 1964) is a Bosnian politician who served as
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina The chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian/ Croatian: ''Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara Bosne i Hercegovine'', ) is the head of the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The chairman of the Council of Minis ...
from 2015 to 2019. He has been serving as member of the national
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since 2019. He also served as Premier of Sarajevo Canton from 2003 to 2006. Zvidzić was a prominent figure of the Party of Democratic Action, until he left it in 2021 to join the
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party.


Early life and education

Zvizdić was born on 9 June 1964 in
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. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the
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, where he earned a PhD and in 2007 became a professor of architecture.


Early career

Zvizdić had worked at the Ministry for Environment and Construction of the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Република Босна и Херцеговина, separator=" / ") was a state in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1992 to 1995. It is the direct lega ...
and of the
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(FBiH), as well as for the Unioninvest Sarajevo Company prior to his political career. He was also Co-Director of the National Action Plan for Protection of Environment.


Early political career

In 2003, Zvizdić became Premier of the Sarajevo Canton - his first major political appointment - and in 2006 speaker of the
Sarajevo Canton The Sarajevo Canton, officially the Canton of Sarajevo (; ; ), is one of the ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its cantonal seat is the city of Sarajevo, also the capital city of Bosnia and Herzeg ...
al Assembly. He was then a member of the Federal Parliament ( House of Peoples, 2006–10;
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, 2010–14). Zvizdić was a member of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) from 1991 until 2021, after which he joined the
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 (NiP) was founded on 12 March 2018, after Elmedin Konaković resigned from al ...
party. He was a member of its Presidency from 2005. In 2009, Zvizdić was appointed Chair of the SDA Council and joined the party's Main Board in 2013. He was a member of the party Cantonal Board in Sarajevo (2004–05), and prior to that member of the Sarajevo Centar Municipal Board (2000–03).


Chairman of the Council of Ministers (2015–2019)

On 31 March 2015, in a vote in the national
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determining the new
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, 28 out of the 42
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members voted for Zvizdić, 5 voted against and 2 abstained. Zvizdić promised that his government would improve action on the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union. During his premiership, the SAA agreement with the EU entered into force on 15 July 2015, and on 15 February 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted its EU membership application. In July 2016, Zvizdić's government approved a comprehensive anti-discrimination law which has to do with LGBT rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, banning discrimination on account of one's sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. Later on, the Parliament adopted the law. This came after the ''Law Against Discrimination'' was adopted in 2009, prohibiting discrimination based on sex, gender expression and sexual orientation. Furthermore, the law forbids harassment and segregation on the basis of sexual orientation. The country's desire to join the EU has also played an important role in the government's approach to LGBT rights. After the 2018 general election and with a newly established
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, on 23 December 2019, Zvizdić was succeeded as Chairman of the Council of Ministers by Zoran Tegeltija of the
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (; abbr. СНСД or SNSD) is a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb Serbian nationalism, nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1996, it is the governing party in Republika ...
(SNSD).


Personal life

On 8 February 2021, it was confirmed that Zvizdić tested positive for
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, amid its pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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