Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu
Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu
Leader	Semir Efendić
Founder	Haris Silajdžić
Founded	13 April 1996
Split from	Party of Democratic Action
Headquarters	Maršala Tita 9a, 71000 Sarajevo
Ideology	Social conservatism ; Bosnian unitarism; Pro-Europeanism; Atlanticism
Political position	Centre
HoR BiH	0 / 42
HoP BiH	1 / 15
HoR FBiH	4 / 98
HoP FBiH	2 / 80
NA RS	0 / 83
Website
	www.zabih.ba
	Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Political parties; Elections;

The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu, abbreviated SBiH) is a centrist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The party is one of the most prominent centrist and the most prominent unitarianist party in the country as it staunchly opposes federalism and devolution of political power along ethnic lines by the means of federal entities – i.e. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b Hudson & Bowman 2011, p. 121.
^ ^a ^b Shields & Baldwin 2008, p. 93.
^ ^a ^b Van Willigen 2013, p. 119.
^ Vogel, T. K. (2006). "2006: A watershed year". Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Challenge of Legitimacy: FAST Country Risk Profile Bosnia and Herzegovina: 12–26. Both Dodik and Silajdzic are pursuing the main strategies that politicians from their ethnic group have been pursuing since Dayton: the Bosnian Serbs' primary strategy to keep power and protect the integrity of their community has been to preserve a strong RS, with only grudging transfers of responsibility to the central government, while the Bosniaks' primary strategy has been to build an effective central state at the expense of entity power.
^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina". Parties and Elections in Europe.