Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu | |
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| Leader | Semir Efendić |
| Founder | Haris Silajdžić |
| Founded | 13 April 1996 |
| Split from | Party of Democratic Action |
| Headquarters | Maršala Tita 9a, 71000 Sarajevo |
| Ideology | Social conservatism[1][2] Bosnian unitarism[3][4] Pro-Europeanism Atlanticism |
| Political position | Centre[5] |
| Colours |
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| 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.[1][2][3]
- ^ a b Hudson & Bowman 2011, p. 121.
- ^ a b Shields & Baldwin 2008, p. 93.
- ^ a b 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.