Šefik Džaferović

Šefik Džaferović (2018)

Šefik Džaferović (born September 9, 1957 in Zavidovići ) is a Bosnian politician of the Stranka demokratske akcije (SDA) and since the 2018 elections as a representative of the Bosniaks, a member of the three-person state presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

After attending elementary school and high school in his hometown of Zavidovići, Džaferović studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo until 1979 . After graduating, he worked from 1979 to 1986 as a judge at the Zavidovići Municipal Court and then until 1992 at the local Supreme Court. During the Bosnian War he was a lawyer in 1992/93 and in 1993/94 in the Zenica district. From 1994 to 1996 he worked in the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina .

According to the Dayton Treaty , Džaferović was chairman of the parliament in the canton of Zenica-Doboj from 1996 to 2000 and at the same time a member of the House of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina , a chamber of the Bosnian parliament. Since 2002 he has been directly elected to the House of Representatives - the other chamber of parliament - four times . In the 2018 elections, he ran for the SDA to succeed Bakir Izetbegović and was elected to the state presidency with 36% of the vote, alongside the Serb Milorad Dodik and the Croat Željko Komšić .

Džaferović is married and has two children.

Web links

• Short biography on predsjednistvobih.ba, accessed on February 21, 2019 (Bosnian)