Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu
The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu , SBiH) is a liberal and multi-ethnic party in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
The party was founded in 1996 as a split from the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action (SDA). It has since been led by the then Prime Minister Haris Silajdžić .
The Liberal Party rejects the complicated state structure of the Dayton Treaty . She is striving for a more centralized state as well as equal voting rights. So far the parliamentary seats have been allocated proportionally to the three ethnic groups. The two entities , the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Republika Srpska , want to dissolve the SBiH.
The SBiH received 15.5% of the vote in the elections to the State House of Representatives in October 2006, making it the third largest party. With 8 (+ 2) of the 42 seats, it even forms the second largest group. In the House of Representatives of the Bosnian-Croatian Federation , 24 (+ 9) of the 98 MPs belong to the party, in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska 3 (unchanged) of the 83 MPs belong .
The party chairman Haris Silajdžić was elected with 62.8% of the Bosniak votes as a Bosniak member of the three-person state presidium.
The SBiH was able to improve its share of the vote in the federation by around 7 percentage points and is therefore almost as strong as the SDA, which in turn lost around 7 percentage points.
In the 2010 elections, the seat in the state presidency went to Bakir Izetbegović (SDA).