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Bakir Izetbegović

Bakir Izetbegović

Bakir Izetbegović (born 1956) is a Bosnian architect and politician, president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) since 2014.

Born
1956 (70 years), Sarajevo
Party
Party of Democratic Action
Education
University of Sarajevo
Political position

Centre · Where sources place this person
Wikipedia: centrist Bosniak nationalist
Ideology: Bosniak nationalism, pro-Europeanism

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He was the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2010 to 2018. He is named as a candidate for the Bosniak seat in the Presidency in the 2026 general election.

Career

Izetbegović graduated in architecture at Sarajevo in 1981 and directed the Construction Institute of Sarajevo Canton from 1991 to 2003. A member of the SDA since 1990, he joined its presidency in 2002 and became party president in 2014. He sat in the House of Representatives from 2006 to 2010 and held the Bosniak Presidency seat from 2010 to 2018, chairing it four times. He took 35% in 2010 and 32.8% in 2014, and lost in 2022 with 37.3% to Denis Bećirović. He sat in the House of Peoples from 2019 to 2023.

Offices held
  1. Member of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019–2023
  2. Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012–2012, 2014–2014, 2016–2016, 2018–2018
  3. Bosniak Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010–2018
  4. Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2007–2011
  5. Member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006–2010
  6. Member of House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002–2006

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as a centrist Bosniak nationalist who supports EU integration and close relations with Turkey.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Bosniak President of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Denis Bećirović ResolvedCentre-left50100%
Semir Efendić ResolvedCentre430%
Bakir Izetbegović ResolvedCentre700%

All 3 outcomes

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