Ivo Komšić
Croat politician
Ivo Komšić (born 16 June 1948) is a Bosnian professor and politician who served as the 37th mayor of Sarajevo from 2013 to 2017. He was a key figure in the talks that led to the end of the Bosnian War with the Dayton Agreement, and the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Komšić served as the Croat member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina alongside Stjepan Kljuić from 1993 to 1996, most of it during the war. He also served as member of the Federal House of Representatives from 2006 to 2010.
Early life
Komšić was born into a Bosnian Croat family in the village Borina by Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina. When he was born, in 1948, the country was part of Yugoslavia.
Bosnian War
At the beginning of the war in 1992, Komšić served temporarily as the Ministry of Defense as a volunteer and joined a humanitarian organization in Kiseljak.
Komšić joined the Party of Democratic Reform political party in March 1991, leaving it after co-founding the Croatian Peasant Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 April 1993 with a group of Croat intellectuals, shortly before the escalation of war in Central Bosnia. This party created an alternative Croat policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, opting for preservation of unified Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and coexistence of Croats with other nations in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In November 1993 he became a member of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency based on the result of 1990 elections.
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