Marko Mijatović
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POLITICAL PARTIES OF BOSNIAKS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
This paper examines the issue of the modern political tradition and national identity of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the beginnings of which are linked to the period of the Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878–1918. Starting from that time until modern political conditions, in one long period, periods of their political divisions (the Austro-Hungarian period) and exclusive attachment to certain political movements (the period of the first Yugoslavia) alternated. The decades-long dominance of the communist party (in the second Yugoslavia), This paper examines the issue of national identity and the modern political tradition of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the beginnings of which are linked to the period of the Austro-Hungarian occupation in 1878–1918. Starting from that time until modern political conditions, in one long period, periods of their political divisions (the Austro-Hungarian period) and exclusive attachment to certain political movements (the period of the first Yugoslavia) alternated. The decades-long dominance of the communist party (in the second Yugoslavia), followed by the re-establishment of a pluralistic political life, is also characteristic and followed with the re-establishment of a pluralistic political life. In this paper, we want to make a synthesis of the development of the Bosniak national idea and its formation and rounding that took place in socialist Yugoslavia, especially during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, which was closely related to their predominant political parties.
GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN OCTOBER 2022
In this paper, we will consider the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina held on October 2, 2022, and the changes in the electoral legislation that came about by the decision of the so-called High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kristijan Šmit, on election night, based on the so-called "Bonn Powers". The main intention of these measures was to unfreeze and speed up the process of forming new authorities in the entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (and to some extent resolve the political tensions between Bosniaks and Croats that have been present for years and decades), proceeding cautiously to meet Croatian demands. Yet the new solution led to a new type of problem, which significantly complicated the formation of new authorities and led to a new reaction of the High Representative, which was the introduction to new political tensions in the entity of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in the country as a whole.
