Bosnia and Herzegovina has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
List Represented in the Parliamentary Assembly
Party Abbr. Leader Ideology Representatives Delegates Politicalposition Europeanaffiliation Party of Democratic Action SDA Bakir Izetbegović Centre-rightto right-wing EPP Alliance of Independent Social Democrats SNSD Milorad Dodik Big tentCentre-left Social Democratic Party SDP Nermin Nikšić Centre-left PES Croatian Democratic Union Dragan Čović Centre-rightto right-wing EPP Democratic Front DF Željko Komšić Centre tocentre-left Our Party NS Sabina Ćudić Centre tocentre-left ALDE Serb Democratic Party SDS Branko Blanuša Centre-rightto right-wing Party of Democratic Progress PDP Draško Stanivuković Centre tocentre-right EPP People and Justice NiP Elmedin Konaković Centre-right People's European Union NES Nermin Ogrešević Centre tocentre-right For Justice and Order ZPR Nebojša Vukanović Big tent Democratic Union DEMOS Nedeljko Čubrilović Conservatism Centre-right United Srpska US Nenad Stevandić Centre-rightto far-right Bosnian-Herzegovinian Initiative BHI Fuad Kasumović Centre-left Forward NPD Šemsudin Mehmedović Centre Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina SBiH Semir Efendić Centre Croatian Democratic Union 1990 Ilija Cvitanović Centre-right EPP
Represented in Entity Parliaments Name Abbr. Leader Ideology HoR FBiH HoP FBiH NA RS Political position Movement of Democratic Action PDA Elzina Pirić Centre-right Bosnian-Herzegovinian Greens BHZ Sevlid Hurtić Green politicsPro-Europeanism Centre to centre-left Croatian National Shift HNP Ivan Vukadin Centre-right Croatian Republican Party HRS Slaven Raguž Centre-right Movement for a Modern and Active Krajina POMAK Elvedin Sedić Regionalism Centre People's Power SN Ramo Isak Centre tocentre-right Croatian Peasant Party HSS Mario Karamatić Centre-rightFor New GenerationsZNGDamir MarjanovićCentre tocentre-left Socialist Party SP Petar Đokić Centre-left People's Party of Srpska NPS Darko Banjac Right-wing Socialist Party of Srpska SPS Goran Selak Social democracy Centre-left People's Front NF Jelena Trivić Centre tocentre-right Democratic People's Alliance DNS Nenad Nešić Centre-right
Extra-parliamentary parties Name Abbr. Leader Ideology Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party BPS Sefer Halilović Bosnian Party BOSS Mirnes Ajanović Left-wing populism Civic Democratic Party GDS Ibrahim Spahić Social liberalism Croatian Christian Democratic Union HKDU Ivanka Barić Christian democracy Croatian Peasant Party of Stjepan Radić HSS SR Anto Lozančić Croatian Party of Rights HSP Nikola Raguž Democratic People's Union DNZ Admil Mulalić Democratic Party of Federalists DSF Dragan Đokanović Greens of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zeleni Hasan Delić Green politics Independent Bloc NBНБ Senad Šepić Civic nationalismConservatism Labour Party LS Elvira Abdić-Jelenović Party of United Pensioners PUP Vinko Pušonja Pensioners' Party SPU Dževad Hodžić Pensioners' interests People's Party Work for Prosperity NSRzB Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović Pirate Party PP Position vacant Party of Croatian Right SHP Ante Matić Bosnia-Herzegovina Party of Rights 1861 BSP 1861 Vlado Musa Platform for Progress PzP Mirsad Hadžikadić Serbian Radical Party "9th January" SRS 9J Dragan Đurđević Social Democrats SD Enver Bijedić Union for a Better Future of BiH SBB Fahrudin Radončić Workers' Communist Party RKP Goran Marković
Defunct and historical parties Name Abbr. Leader Ideology Communist Party Komunistička partija KP Muhamed Imamović CommunismDemocratic socialism Liberal Democratic PartyLiberalno demokratska stranka LDS Hasib Salkić Liberalism Party of Justice and Trust Stranka pravde i povjerenja SPP Živko Budimir Social conservatism Party of Democratic ActivityStranka demokratske aktivnosti A-SDA Nermin Ogrešević Bosnian nationalism Islamic democracy National conservatism Independent Bosnian-Herzegovinian ListNezavisna bosanskohercegovačka lista NBL Ibrahim Hadžibajrić Bosnian nationalism Conservatism Croatian Christian Democrats Hrvatski demokršćani HD Petar Milić Christian democracy Croat People's Union Hrvatska narodna zajednica HNZ Milenko Brkić Croatian nationalismConservatism Croatian Right Bloc Hrvatski pravaški blok HPB Željko Koroman Croatian nationalismConservativism Democratic Alliance of Greens Demokratski savez Zelenih DSZ Unknown Green politics Democratic Party of Pensioners Demokratska stranka penzionera DSP Alojz Knezović Pensioners' interests Democratic Party of Republika Srpska Demokratska stranka Republike Srpske DP RS Dragan Čavić National conservatism Democratic Socialist Party Demokratska socijalistička partija DSP Nebojša Radmanović Democratic socialism League of Communists Savez komunista SK President of the Presidency CommunismMarxism-Leninism League of Socialist Youth Savez socijalističke omladine SSO Rasim Kadić Liberalism Muslim Bosniak Organisation Muslimanska bošnjačka organizacija MBO Adil Zulfikarpašić Muslim minority politics National Democratic Party Narodna demokratska stranka NDS Krsto Jandrić National conservatism New Croatian Initiative Nova hrvatska inicijativa NHI Krešimir Zubak Christian democracyCroatian nationalism Radical Party of Republika Srpska Radikalna stranka Republike Srpske RSRS Unknown Serbian nationalism Republican Party Republikanska stranka RS Stjepan Kljuić Secularism Serb National Alliance Srpski narodni savez SNS RS Biljana Plavšić Catch-all partySerbian nationalism Serbian Radical Party of Republika SrpskaSrpska radikalna stranka Republike Srpske SRS RS Milanko Mihajlica Serbian nationalismNational conservatism Social Democratic Union Socijaldemokratska unija SDU Nermin Pećanac Social democracySecularism Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia Savez reformskih snaga SRSJ Ante Marković Social liberalismSocial democracy Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina Social Democrats Unija bosansko-hercegovačkih socijaldemokrata UBSD Sead Avdić Social democracy
See also Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina List of political parties in Republika Srpska
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