Background
Komšić was born to an ethnic Croat father, Marko, and Serb mother, Danica, who was killed by a sniper during the Siege of Sarajevo.
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Komšić was born to an ethnic Croat father, Marko, and Serb mother, Danica, who was killed by a sniper during the Siege of Sarajevo.
University of Sarajevo. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Sarajevo Law School.
Komšić was a prominent figure of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina until he left it in July 2012, apparently because of the Social Democratic Party"s agreement with the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ) about the new majority in the Federal Parliament. Komšić has a law degree from University of Sarajevo. The couple has a daughter named Lana.
He was a councilman of the municipality of Novo Sarajevo and in the city council of Sarajevo, before being elected the head of the municipal government of Novo Sarajevo in 2000.
He then also served as the deputy mayor of Sarajevo for two years. When the "Alliance for Democratic Change" coalition came to power in 1998, Komšić was named the ambassador to the now defunct Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Belgrade.
He resigned this commission after the election in 2002 when Social Democratic Party went back into opposition. Komšić was Social Democratic Party"s candidate for the Croatian seat in the Presidency in the Bosnia and Herzegovina general election, 2006.
He received 116,062 votes, or 39.6% ahead of Ivo Miro Jović (HDZ.
261%), Božo Ljubić (HDZ 1990. 182%), Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović (NSRB. 85%), Zvonko Jurišić (Hungarian Socialist Party.
69%) and Irena Javor-Korjenić (07%). He was sworn into office on 1 October 2006.
Croats see him as an illegitimate representative of the Bosnian Croats because he was elected mostly by Bosniak voters.
Komšić replied to Silajdžić that he is not the one who will decide how many languages are being spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to a study conducted by the National Democratic Institute in 2010, Komšić was the most popular politician among the Bosniaks. He was followed by Borjana Krišto (HDZ.
197%), Martin Raguž (Hong Kong. 108%), Jerko Ivanković-Lijanović (NSRB. 81%), Pero Galić (03%), Mile Kutle (02%) and Ferdo Galić (02%).
His statement created negative reactions from Croat political parties and, at the time, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik.
Although elected to the post of Croat member of the tri-partite presidency, Bosnian Croats considered him to be an illegitimate representative of their interests as he was elected mostly by Bosniak voters in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Bosniak-Croat political entity which forms about half of the country. After the war, Komšić embarked on a political career as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Social Democratic Party-BiH). In May 2008, the Bosniak Member of the State Presidency, Haris Silajdžić, stated during his visit to Washington Doctorate. C. that there is only one language in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it goes by three names.