Movement of Democratic Action

Movement of Democratic Action
Pokret demokratske akcije
Movement of Democratic Action Pokret demokratske akcije
President	Elzina Pirić
Founder	Mirsad Kukić
Founded	24 March 2018
Split from	Party of Democratic Action
Headquarters	Fra Grge Martića 8, Tuzla
Ideology	Bosniak nationalism ; Conservatism ; Tuzla regionalism
Political position	Centre-right
HoR BiH	0 / 42
HoP BiH	0 / 15
HoR FBiH	1 / 98
HoP FBiH	0 / 80
NA RS	0 / 83
Website
	pdabih.org
	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Last updated June 28, 2024

The Movement of Democratic Action (Bosnian: Pokret demokratske akcije or PDA) is a conservative political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1]

History

The party was founded by Mirsad Kukić in 2018.^[3] After Kukić was removed from the SDA Cantonal committee of Tuzla canton, because he worked against the party's by-law, he announced he would be making his own party named Movement of Democratic Action. He accused SDA of not working in the interest of the people of Tuzla canton, rather that they were only "working for personal gains".^[4] The PDA claims that it will work based on the ideas of former SDA presidents Alija Izetbegović and Sulejman Tihić.

In the 2018 general elections, the PDA managed to obtain 38,417 (2.32%) votes and one seat in the House of Representatives.

List of presidents

#	Name (Born–Died)	Portrait	Term of Office
1	Mirsad Kukić (1958–2024)		24 March 2018	23 January 2022
2	Elzina Pirić (b. 1980)		23 January 2022	present

Elections

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
2018	12th	38,417	2.32	1 / 42	New	0 / 15	New	Opposition
2022	22nd	14,889	0.94	0 / 42	1	0 / 15	0	Extra-parliamentary

Cantonal elections

Cantonal election	Cantonal Assembly
Cantonal election	Una-Sana	Posavina	Tuzla	Zenica-Doboj	Bosnian Podrinje Goražde	Central Bosnia	Herzegovina-Neretva	West Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Canton 10	Total won / Total contested

2018	0 / 30	1 / 21	7 / 35	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 30	0 / 30	0 / 23	0 / 35	0 / 25	8 / 289
2022	0 / 30	1 / 21	3 / 35	0 / 35	0 / 25	0 / 30	0 / 30	0 / 23	0 / 35	0 / 25	4 / 289

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↑ "Mirsad Kukić osniva novu stranku". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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[Nordsieck-1] 1 2 3 Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Bosnia-Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[pdabih-2] "O nama". pdabih.org (in Bosnian). Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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