Biljana Plavšić is a Bosnian Serb former politician,university professor and scientist who served as President of Republika Srpska and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War.
Dragan Čović is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 4th Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2018. He is the current president of the Croatian Democratic Union and has been serving as a member of the national House of Peoples since 2019,having previously served from 2011 to 2014.
Sulejman Tihić was a Bosnian politician who served as the 4th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He was a member and later president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA). From 2007 until his death in 2014,Tihićserved as member of the national House of Peoples.
Milorad Dodik is a Bosnian Serb politician currently serving as the 8th president of Republika Srpska since 2022,a position he previously held from 2010 to 2018. He also served as the 7th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022.
Željko Komšić is a Bosnian Croat politician serving as the 6th and current Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2018. Previously,he was a member of the national House of Representatives from 2014 to 2018.
Bisera Turković is a Bosnian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023. She was the first female foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The president of Republika Srpska is the highest executive authority in Republika Srpska,an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is one of the executive authorities,along with the Government of Republika Srpska. The president of Republika Srpska is directly elected for a term of four years,along with two vice presidents from different constituent nations. None of them can be from a same constituent nation at the same time. The president's residence is in Banja Luka.
Radoslav Brđanin was a Bosnian Serb political leader and a war criminal. In 2004 he was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes committed during the Bosnian War. The sentence,which he served in Denmark,was reduced by two years on appeal in 2008.
Sifet Podžić is a Bosnian politician and former Army commander who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2023. He has been a member of the Democratic Front since 2013.
Denis Bećirović is a Bosnian politician,professor and historian serving as the 8th and current Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2022. Previously,Bećirovićwas a member of the national House of Peoples from 2019 to 2022. He is also the current vice-president of the Social Democratic Party.
Hans Сhristian Friedrich Schmidt is a German politician serving as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since August 2021. He is a member of the Christian Social Union.
The partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina was discussed and attempted during the 20th century. The issue came to prominence during the Bosnian War,which also involved Bosnia and Herzegovina's largest neighbors,Croatia and Serbia. As of 2024,the country remains one state while internal political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the 1995 Dayton Agreement remain in place.
Several referendums have been held in Republika Srpska during its existence,whilst others have been proposed but not happened.
The Dayton Agreement ended the Bosnian War and created the federal republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),which consists of the Bosniak and Croat-inhabited Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Serb-inhabited Republika Srpska (RS). Although the Bosnian Serbs were viewed as "anti-Dayton" during the first years after the war,since 2000 they have been staunch supporters of the Dayton Agreement and the preservation of RS. Bosniaks generally view RS as illegitimate,and an independence referendum from BiH has been proposed in RS. The 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum and Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence have raised the possibility of a referendum and unification with Serbia. In 2015,after a judicial and police crisis,the governing Alliance of Independent Social Democrats said that it would hold an independence referendum in 2018 if RS's autonomy was not preserved. Almost all people vote for pro-independence parties.
Šefik Džaferović is a Bosnian politician who served as the 7th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022. He has been serving as member of the national House of Peoples since 2023. A high ranking member of the Party of Democratic Action,he was formerly its vice president and general secretary.
Municipal elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 November 2020 to elect mayors and assemblies in 143 municipalities. Originally scheduled for 4 October,they were postponed due to a lack of funds.
Draško Stanivuković is a Bosnian Serb politician serving as mayor of Banja Luka since December 2020. He is a member of the Party of Democratic Progress.
General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 2 October 2022. They decided the makeup of the presidency as well as national,entity and cantonal governments.
Sonja Karadžić-Jovičević is a Bosnian Serb politician and doctor serving as the vice president of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska since 7 October 2018.
