Newly-elected lawmakers in the House of Representatives met today to elect a president and two vice-presidents.
Sefik Dzaferovic, of the [mainly Bosniak] Party of Democratic Action, SDA, was named president of the House of Representatives, one of two chambers of Bosnia’s state-level parliament, in a vote at the first session on December 9.
The first vice-president was named as Borjana Kristo, from the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ. Mladen Bosic, of the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, was named the second vice-president….
The SDA holds 10 seats, the [Serbian] Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, six, the Democratic Front, DF, has five, as does the SDS.
The Alliance for a Better Future, SBB, has four, as does the HDZ and its partners. The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has three seats.
HDZ 1990 has one, as does the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriot Party, BPS, the Party of Democratic Progress, PDP, the People’s Democratic Movement, NDP, and the Party of Democratic Action, A-SDA.
The inaugural session of the House of Peoples has not yet been scheduled, and the BiH Council of Ministers has yet to be constituted.
