Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine/Предсједништво Босне и Херцеговине) is the head of state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The building of the Presidency is located in central Sarajevo.
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The building of the Presidency is located in central Sarajevo.

According to the Article V of the Constitution, the Presidency consists of three members: one Bosniak and one Croat elected from the Federation and one Serb elected from the Republika Srpska. Together, they serve one four-year term, rotating every 8 months.

The member with the most votes becomes the chairman (the President of the Presidency) unless he or she was the incumbent chairman at the time of the election, but the chairmanship rotates every eight months, to ensure equality.

The Presidency is responsible for:

  • Conducting the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
  • Appointing ambassadors and other international representatives, no more than two thirds of which may come from the Federation;
  • Representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in European and international organizations and institutions and seeking membership in such organizations and institutions of which it is not a member;
  • Negotiating, denouncing, and, with the consent of the Parliamentary Assembly, ratifying treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
  • Executing decisions of the Parliamentary Assembly;
  • Proposing, upon the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, an annual budget to the Parliamentary Assembly;
  • Reporting as requested, but no less than annually, to the Parliamentary Assembly on expenditures by the Presidency;
  • Coordinating as necessary with international and nongovernmental organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and;
  • Performing such other functions as may be necessary to carry out its duties, as may be assigned to it by the Parliamentary Assembly, or as may be agreed by the Entities.

See also List of chairmen of the Presidency

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[edit] Presidency elected in 1998

Elected members:

Zivko Radisic with 52% of the Serb vote was elected chairman of the collective presidency for the first 8 months; Ante Jelavic with 52% of the Croat vote followed Radisic in the rotation; Alija Izetbegovic with 87% of the Bosniak vote won the highest number of votes in the election but was ineligible to serve a second term until Radisic and Jelavic had each served a first term as Chairman of the Presidency.

[edit] Presidency elected in 2002

Election held 5 October 2002 (next to be held in 2006).

Elected members:

Mirko Šarović with 35.5% of the Serb vote was elected chairman of the collective presidency for the first eight months; Dragan Čović received 61.5% of the Croat vote; Sulejman Tihić received 37% of the Bosniak vote.

Mirko Šarović resigned in 2003 due to his implication in the scandal regarding the selling of arms to Iraq. The Parliament replaced him with Borislav Paravac.

Dragan Čović was dismissed by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown, after Čović was indicted for financial corruption; however, the trial hasn't taken place yet. The Parliament replaced him with Ivo Miro Jović.

[edit] Results

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Summary of the 5 October 2002 Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidium election results
Candidates - Nominating parties % Bosniaks % Serbs % Croats
Sulejman Tihić - Party of Democratic Action 37.3
Haris Silajdžić - Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina 34.8
Alija Behmen - Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.5
Fikret Abdić - Democratic People's Community 4.1
Faruk Balijagić - Bosnian Party 1.9
Emir Zlatar - Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party 1.3
Rasim Kadić - Liberal Democratic Party 1.0
Mirko Šarović - Serbian Democratic Party 35.5
Nebojsa Radmanović - Party of Independent Social Democrats 19.9
Ognjen Tadić - Serbian Radical Party of the Republika Srpska 8.7
Desnica Radivojević - Party of Democratic Action 8.2
Branko Dokić - Party of Democratic Progress 8.1
Mirko Banjaé - League of People's Rebirth 4.6
Mladen Grahovac - Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.5
Dargutin Ilić - Socialist Party of the Republika Srpska 3.7
Milorad Cokić - Democratic People's Alliance 3.2
Svetozar Radivojević - Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska 1.0
Dragan Čović - Coalition 61.5
Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović - Economic Bloc 17.4
Mijo Anić - New Croatian Initiative 8.8
Stjepan Kljuić - Republican Party 5.1
Željko Koroman - Croatian Right Bloc 2.8
Žarko Mišić - Croatian Christian Democratic Union 2.8
Marinko Brkić 1.2
Total (turnout 53.9 %) 100.0 100.0 100.0
Source: Izboria.ba. Republikanska Stranka = Republican Party

[edit] Presidency elected in 2006

The elections were held on 1 September 2006.

The following were elected to the Presidency:

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