List of political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This list gives an overview of the political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina . There is a multi-party system there .
The parties
The party landscape is very fragmented due to the division of the multi-ethnic country. While the governing parties are relatively small, there are many different parties in the opposition: In 2006, 36 parties with over 7,000 candidates competed for voters.
Bosnian Herzegovinian parties
- Građanska demokratska stranka ("Civil Democratic Party")
- Liberalna demokratska stranka ("Liberal Democratic Party")
- Stranka penzionera / umirovljenika BiH ("Pensioners' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
- Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine ("Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
- Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine ("Communist Workers' Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina")
- Bosanska stranka ("Bosnian Party")
- Demokratska Narodna Zajednica ("People's Democratic Community")
- Demokratska fronta ("Democratic Front")
Ethnic Bosniak parties
- Stranka demokratske akcije (" Party of Democratic Action ")
- Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu (" Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina ")
- Bosanskohercegovačka Patriotska Stranka ("Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party")
Bosnian Serb ethnic parties
- Demokratska stranka federalista ("Democratic Party of Federalists")
- Demokratska stranka RS ("Democratic Party of the Republika Srpska")
- Demokratski narodni savez ("Democratic People's Alliance")
- Partija demokratskog progresa ("Party of Democratic Progress")
- Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata ("Alliance of Independent Social Democrats")
- Penzionerska stranka Republike Srpske ("Pensioners' Party of the Republika Srpska")
- Srpska Demokratska Stranka ("Serbian Democratic Party")
- Srpski narodni savez RS ("Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska")
- Srpska radikalna stranka RS ("Serbian Radical Party of the Republika Srpska")
- Socijalistička partija ("Socialist Party")
- Savez narodnog preporoda ("alliance of bourgeois change")
Bosnian-Croatian ethnic parties
- Demokršćani ("Christian Democrats")
- Hrvatska kršćanska demokratska unija ("Croatian Christian Democratic Union")
- Hrvatska demokratska zajednica BiH (" Croatian Democratic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina ")
- Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990 (" Croatian Democratic Community 1990 ")
- Hrvatska stranka prava ("Croatian Party of Law")
- Hrvatska seljačka stranka BiH ("Croatian Peasant Party")
- Hrvatski pravaški blok ("Croatian Block of the Right")
- Ekonomski blok HDU - Za boljitak ("Economic bloc")
- Nova hrvatska inicijativa ("New Croatian Initiative")