Elvira Abdić-Jelenović (born 7 September 1967) is a Bosnian politician. She is the president of the Labour Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 2013. Prior to that, she was a long-year member of the Democratic People's Union, a party founded by her father

Fikret Abdić Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939), also known as Babo, is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša-based agriculture company Agrokomer ...

, 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. In the 2021 census, its population was 49,377. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located southwest of Zagreb and northeast of Rijeka, and is connected to them via the ...

. 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 () is in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, 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.

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