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BiH elects Denis Zvizdic as new chairman for state-level gov't

Xinhua, February 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The House of Representatives of Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Wednesday voted to appoint Denis Zvizdic as chairman of the Council of Ministers of BiH.

Zvizdic is the candidate of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), a center-right Bosnian ethnic party which won the general election last year.

Zvizdic will serve as the head of state government in name, but with much-reduced authority compared with similar positions of other countries. For instance, the chairman cannot appoint his ministers as parties from the ruling coalition delegate their members to fill in those positions.

Zvizdic will replace the outgoing chairman Vjekoslav Bevanda. Endit