Nikola Špirić

Nikola Špirić

Nikola Špirić (Cyrillic Никола Шпирић; born September 4, 1956 in Prekaja near Titov Drvar , Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Bosnian-Serb politician of the SNSD party and between 2007 and 2011 the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Prime Minister ).

Špirić attended elementary school in Drvar, high school in Sarajevo and studied at Sarajevo University . He is a doctor of economics. From 1992, Špirić worked in Banja Luka as a professor of monetary and public finance at the Faculty of Economics and was also politically active. After joining the SNSD from 1999–2000 he was a member of the House of Representatives, from 2000 Deputy Minister for Human Rights and Refugees, and in 2001 Chairman and 2002–06 Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives.

On November 1, 2007, Špirić submitted his resignation as a protest against the reform plans of the High Representative of the International Community, Miroslav Lajčák . In his opinion, these threatened the Bosnian Serbs' right to have a say at national level. The dispute between the Prime Minister, Parliament and the High Representative was also referred to in the Bosnian media as the kabinetski rat (“Cabinet War ”) and was considered by some observers to be the worst crisis since the end of the Bosnian War .

After the dispute was settled, Nikola Špirić was nominated again for the post of chairman on December 10, 2007, and was confirmed by the presidency on December 27 and by parliament one day later. He was followed in 2011/12 by Vjekoslav Bevanda .

Nikola Špirić is married to a Bosniak from Tuzla .

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• Fischer World Almanac 2008

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