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Željko Komšić

Željko Komšić

Željko Komšić (born 1964) is a Bosnian lawyer and politician, leader of the Democratic Front, and the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2018, a seat he also held from 2006 to 2014.

Born
1964 (62 years), Sarajevo
Party
Democratic Front
Office
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2025–
Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018–
Education
Walsh School of Foreign Service, Faculty of Law (University of Sarajevo)
Political position

Centre-left · Where sources place this person
Wikipedia: civic-oriented, centre-left
Ideology: civic politics, social democracy, pro-Europeanism

27%Probability · Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

1h change
▼4 pts
24h change
▲16 pts
1w change
▲26 pts
Voting day
(3 days ago)

He is named among the possible contenders for Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Career

Komšić graduated in law at Sarajevo in 1988. He chaired the Sarajevo City Council from 1998 to 2000, was mayor of Novo Sarajevo in 2000-2001 and 2004-2006, and was ambassador to FR Yugoslavia in 2000-2002. He held the Croat Presidency seat from 2006 to 2014, winning with 39.6% in 2006 and 60.6% in 2010, sat in the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2018 and won again with 52.6% in 2018 and 55.8% in 2022. He left the Social Democratic Party and has led the Democratic Front since 2013.

Offices held
  1. Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007–2008, 2009–2010, 2011–2012, 2013–2014, 2019–2020, 2021–2022, 2023–2024, 2025–
  2. Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006–2014, 2018–
  3. Substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2016–2019
  4. Member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014–2018
  5. Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2015–2016

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as civic-oriented and centre-left, favouring constitutional reform and stronger state institutions over ethnic power-sharing, and supporting EU and NATO integration. Croat parties dispute his legitimacy as a Croat representative, since he was elected largely with Bosniak votes.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: European Union, Attribution, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Željko KomšićCentre-left6227%
Denis Zvizdić19%
Denis BećirovićCentre-left5015%
Elmedin KonakovićCentre5212%
Bakir IzetbegovićCentre708%
Nermin NikšićCentre-left657%
Saša MagazinovićCentre-left476%
Edin FortoCentre544%
Borjana KrištoCentre-right654%
Radovan Višković3%
Zoran Tegeltija3%
Nebojša VukanovićCentre-right472%

All 18 outcomes

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