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Zukan Helez

Zukan Helez

Zukan Helez (born 1964 in Kupres) is a Bosnian politician and former secondary-school teacher, deputy president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP BiH), a centre-left party.

Born
1964 (62 years)
Party
Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Political position

Centre-left · Where sources place the party (Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Wikipedia: centre-left (Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Ideology: social democracy

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He has been Minister of Defence and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers since January 2023. He is named as a possible candidate for Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the next appointment.

Career

Helez graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Sarajevo and served in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1993. After the war he worked as a secondary-school teacher. In the SDP BiH he became vice president of its cantonal committee in 2003 and its president in 2005, and since August 2025 he has been the party's deputy president. He sat in the Federation's House of Representatives from 2001 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2018, was Federation Minister for Veterans and Disabled Veterans from 2011 to 2015, and was a member of the national House of Representatives from 2018 until January 2023, when he became Minister of Defence and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

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Photo: Arlington National Cemetery, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Željko KomšićCentre-left6230%
Denis Zvizdić17%
Denis BećirovićCentre-left5015%
Elmedin KonakovićCentre5212%
Bakir IzetbegovićCentre708%
Nermin NikšićCentre-left657%
Saša MagazinovićCentre-left475%
Edin FortoCentre544%
Borjana KrištoCentre-right654%
Zoran Tegeltija3%
Radovan Višković3%
Zukan HelezCentre-left621%

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