Željko Komšić | |
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Member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Assumed office 9 December 2014 |
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Constituency | 3rd electoral district |
6th Croat Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
In office 6 November 2006 – 17 November 2014 |
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Prime Minister | Adnan Terzić Nikola Špirić Vjekoslav Bevanda |
Preceded by | Ivo Miro Jović |
Succeeded by | Dragan Čović |
Chairmen of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
In office 10 July 2013 – 10 March 2014 |
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Prime Minister | Vjekoslav Bevanda |
Preceded by | Nebojša Radmanović |
Succeeded by | Bakir Izetbegović |
In office 10 July 2011 – 10 March 2012 |
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Prime Minister | Nikola Špirić Vjekoslav Bevanda |
Preceded by | Nebojša Radmanović |
Succeeded by | Bakir Izetbegović |
In office 6 July 2009 – 6 March 2010 |
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Prime Minister | Nikola Špirić |
Preceded by | Nebojša Radmanović |
Succeeded by | Haris Silajdžić |
In office 6 July 2007 – 6 March 2008 |
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Prime Minister | Nikola Špirić |
Preceded by | Nebojša Radmanović |
Succeeded by | Haris Silajdžić |
Mayor of Novo Sarajevo | |
In office 2004 – 6 November 2006 |
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In office 2000–2001 |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
In office 2001–2003 |
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Presidency | Beriz Belkić, Dragan Čović, Jozo Križanović, Živko Radišić, Mirko Šarović and Sulejman Tihić |
Speaker of the City Council of Sarajevo | |
In office 1998–2000 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
20 January 1964
Nationality | Croat |
Political party | Democratic Front (2013–present) |
Other political affiliations |
Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997–2013) |
Residence | Novo Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Alma mater | University of Sarajevo |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Service/branch | Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Years of service | 1992–1995 |
Battles/wars | Bosnian War |
Awards | Golden Lily |
Željko Komšić (born 20 January 1964) is a Bosnian politician who served as the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2006 to 2014. Komšić was a prominent figure of the Social Democratic Party until he left it in 2012 to join the Democratic Front.
Although elected to the post of Croat member of the tri-partitive presidency, Bosnian Croats considered him to be an illegitimate representative of their interests as he was elected mostly by Bosniak voters in the Federation, a Bosniak-Croat political entity which forms about half of the country.
Komšić was born in Sarajevo to a Bosnian Croat father, Marko, and Bosnian Serb mother Danica (née Stanić; 1941 – 1 August 1992), who was killed by a sniper as she sipped coffee in her apartment during the Siege of Sarajevo. His maternal grandfather Marijan Stanić, who was a Chetnik during World War II, died two years before Komšić was born. The Stanić family hailed from the village Kostajnica by Doboj.
Komšić has a law degree from University of Sarajevo. He is married to Sabina, an ethnic Bosniak, a civil engineer. The couple has a daughter named Lana.
During the Bosnian war, he served in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and received the Golden Lily — the highest military decoration awarded by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian government.