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Dayton Agreement High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling Presidency (Chairman) Haris Silajdžić (SBiH) Željko Komšić (SDP) Nebojša Radmanović (SNSD) Council of Ministers Chairman: Nikola Špirić Parliamentary Assembly House of Peoples House of Representatives Political parties Elections (2006 general elections) Political divisions Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska National Assembly President: Milan Jelić Prime Minister: Milorad Dodik Brčko District Foreign relations

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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.

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

Contents 1 Presidency elected in 1998 2 Presidency elected in 2002 2.1 Results 3 Presidency elected in 2006 4 External links

Elected members:

• Alija Izetbegović for the Bosniaks, since 14 March 1996 (chairman between 14 February 2000 and *NA*)
• Živko Radišić for the Serbs, since 13 October 1998
• Ante Jelavić for the Croats, since September 1998

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.

Election held 5 October 2002.

Elected members:

• Dragan Čović for the Croats
• Mirko Šarović for the Serbs
• Sulejman Tihić for the Bosniaks

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.

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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: Izbori.ba.

The elections were held on 1 October 2006.

The following were elected to the Presidency:

• Željko Komšić for the Croats - received 39.6% of votes, ahead of Ivo Miro Jović with 26.1%
• Nebojša Radmanović for the Serbs - received 53.3% of votes, ahead of Mladen Bosić with 24.2%
• Haris Silajdžić for the Bosniaks - received 62.8% of votes, ahead of Sulejman Tihić with 27.5%

• Website of the Presidency
• Article V of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Holding Bosnian presidents accountable, ISN Security Watch, 21 December 2006