Political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Semir Efendić |
| Founder | Haris Silajdžić |
| Founded | 13 April 1996; 28 years ago (1996-04-13) |
| Split from | Party of Democratic Action |
| Headquarters | Maršala Tita 9a, 71000 Sarajevo |
| Ideology | Social conservatism Bosnian unitarism Pro-Europeanism Atlanticism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colours |
|
| HoR BiH | 0 / 42 |
| HoP BiH | 1 / 15 |
| HoR FBiH | 4 / 98 |
| HoP FBiH | 2 / 80 |
| NA RS | 0 / 83 |
| Website | |
| www.zabih.ba | |
The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu, abbreviated SBiH) is a centrist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party is one of the most prominent centrist and the most prominent unitarianist party in the country as it staunchly opposes federalism and devolution of political power along ethnic lines by the means of federal entities – i.e. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.
List of presidents
| # | Name (Born–Died) |
Portrait | Term of Office | Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haris Silajdžić (b. 1945) |
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13 April 1996 | 6 March 2012 | 15 years, 328 days |
| 2 | Amer Jerlagić (b. 1967) |
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6 March 2012 | 23 April 2021 | 9 years, 48 days |
| 3 | Semir Efendić (b. 1983) |
|
23 April 2021 | present | 3 years, 275 days |
Elections
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Haris Silajdžić | 5th | 93,816 | 3.91 | 2 / 42 | New | 0 / 15 | New | Coalition |
| 1998 | 1st | 583,945 | 33.83 | 3 / 42 |  1
|
1 / 15 | 1
|
Coalition | |
| 2000 | 5th | 168,995 | 11.34 | 5 / 42 | 2
|
1 / 15 |  0
|
Coalition | |
| 2002 | 3rd | 136,090 | 11.07 | 6 / 42 | 1
|
1 / 15 | 0
|
Coalition | |
| 2006 | 3rd | 219,487 | 15.54 | 8 / 42 | 2
|
1 / 15 | 0
|
Coalition | |
| 2010 | 7th | 86,669 | 5.28 | 2 / 42 |  6
|
0 / 15 | 1
|
Opposition | |
| 2014 | Amer Jerlagić | 12th | 25,677 | 1.57 | 0 / 42 | 2
|
0 / 15 | 0
|
Extra-parliamentary |
| 2018 | 17th | 17,830 | 1.08 | 0 / 42 | 0
|
0 / 15 | 0
|
Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2022 | Semir Efendić | 13th | 26,480 | 1.67 | 0 / 42 | 0
|
1 / 15 | 1
|
Opposition |
Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Year | Leader | # | Popular vote | % | HoR | Seat change | HoP | Seat change | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Haris Silajdžić | 4th | 98,207 | 7.35 | 10 / 140 | New | 4 / 65 | New | Coalition |
| 1998 | 1st | 456,458 | 49.20 | 68 / 140 | 58
|
26 / 72 | 22
|
Coalition | |
| 2000 | 4th | 128,833 | 14.85 | 21 / 140 | 47
|
10 / 81 | 16
|
Coalition | |
| 2002 | 4th | 109,843 | 15.70 | 15 / 98 | 6
|
9 / 58 | 1
|
Coalition | |
| 2006 | 2nd | 190,148 | 22.16 | 24 / 98 | 9
|
9 / 58 |
|
Coalition | |
| 2010 | 5th | 78,086 | 7.63 | 9 / 98 | 15
|
0 / 58 | 9
|
Opposition | |
| 2014 | Amer Jerlagić | 8th | 32,790 | 3.30 | 3 / 98 | 6
|
0 / 58 |
|
Opposition |
| 2018 | 12th | 23,007 | 2.30 | 0 / 98 | 3
|
1 / 58 | 1
|
Opposition | |
| 2022 | Semir Efendić | 8th | 36,465 | 3.74 | 4 / 98 | 4
|
1 / 80 |
|
Opposition |
Presidency elections
| Election year | # | Candidate | Votes | % | Representing | Elected? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 2nd | Haris Silajdžić | 124,396 | 13.6% | Bosniaks | No |
| 1998 | 1st | Alija Izetbegović | 511,541 | 86.8% | Bosniaks | Yes |
| 2002 | 2nd | Haris Silajdžić | 179,726 | 34.8% | Bosniaks | No |
| 2006 | 1st | Haris Silajdžić | 350,520 | 62.8% | Bosniaks | Yes |
| 2010 | 3rd | Haris Silajdžić | 117,240 | 25.10% | Bosniaks | No |
| 2018 | 6th | Amer Jerlagić | 9,655 | 1.66% | Bosniaks | No |
| 2022 | 1st | Željko Komšić | 227,540 | 55.80% | Croats | Yes |
Cantonal elections
| Cantonal election | Cantonal Assembly | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Una-Sana | Posavina | Tuzla | Zenica-Doboj | Bosnian Podrinje Goražde | Central Bosnia | Herzegovina-Neretva | West Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Canton 10 | Total won / Total contested | ||||
| 1996 | 3 / 50 | 0 / 20 | 5 / 50 | 6 / 59 | 4 / 31 | 1 / 55 | 2 / 50 | 0 / 31 | 6 / 45 | 0 / 15 | 27 / 406 | |||
| 1998 | 33 / 50 | 5 / 30 | 26 / 50 | 29 / 50 | 21 / 31 | 22 / 50 | 18 / 50 | 0 / 31 | 25 / 45 | 4 / 30 | 182 / 417 | |||
| 2000 | 5 / 30 | 1 / 19 | 4 / 35 | 6 / 35 | 8 / 25 | 4 / 28 | 4 / 28 | 0 / 21 | 10 / 35 | 1 / 23 | 43 / 279 | |||
| 2002 | 5 / 30 | 1 / 21 | 6 / 35 | 6 / 35 | 8 / 25 | 5 / 30 | 5 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 10 / 35 | 1 / 25 | 47 / 289 | |||
| 2006 | 6 / 30 | 1 / 21 | 7 / 35 | 11 / 35 | 8 / 25 | 7 / 30 | 5 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 13 / 35 | 1 / 25 | 59 / 289 | |||
| 2010 | 3 / 30 | 1 / 21 | 3 / 35 | 4 / 35 | 4 / 25 | 2 / 30 | 2 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 4 / 35 | 0 / 25 | 23 / 289 | |||
| 2014 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 21 | 3 / 35 | 2 / 35 | 2 / 25 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 0 / 35 | 0 / 25 | 7 / 289 | |||
| 2018 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 21 | 2 / 35 | 1 / 35 | 2 / 25 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 0 / 35 | 0 / 25 | 5 / 289 | |||
| 2022 | 1 / 30 | 0 / 21 | 2 / 35 | 0 / 35 | 2 / 25 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 30 | 0 / 23 | 5 / 35 | 0 / 25 | 10 / 289 | |||
Notes
- ^ Run as part of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (SDA, SBiH, LS and GDS).
- Member of the SDA.
- Member of the DF.
References
Citations
- ^ Hudson & Bowman 2011, p. 121.
- ^ Shields & Baldwin 2008, p. 93.
- ^ Van Willigen 2013, p. 119.
- Vogel, T. K. (2006). "2006: A watershed year". Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenge of Legitimacy: FAST Country Risk Profile Bosnia and Herzegovina: 12–26.
Both Dodik and Silajdzic are pursuing the main strategies that politicians from their ethnic group have been pursuing since Dayton: the Bosnian Serbs' primary strategy to keep power and protect the integrity of their community has been to preserve a strong RS, with only grudging transfers of responsibility to the central government, while the Bosniaks' primary strategy has been to build an effective central state at the expense of entity power.
- Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe.
Bibliography
- Hudson, Robert; Bowman, Glenn (2011). After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics Within the Successor States. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230201316.
- Shields, Vanessa E.; Baldwin, Nicholas (2008). Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last After Civil Conflict. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. ISBN 9780838641835.
- Van Willigen, Niels (2013). Peacebuilding and International Administration: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781134117185.
