page_title: Željko Komšić
section_title: First term (2006–2010)
hierarchical_section_title: Željko Komšić / Presidency / First term (2006–2010)
caption_attribution_description: English: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose for a photo during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in New York with Željko Komšić of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
context_page_description: Željko Komšić is a Bosnian politician and diplomat who is the 11th and current Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as the Presidency member already from 2006 until 2014, and he was elected to the same office for a third term in the 2018 election, thus becoming the second Presidency member overall and the first, and so far only Croat member to serve more than two terms. He was sworn in on 20 November 2018, along with fellow newly elected presidency members Šefik Džaferović and Milorad Dodik.
  Komšić was a prominent figure of the Social Democratic Party until he left it in 2012 to establish the Democratic Front a year later.
context_section_description: Komšić was SDP's candidate for the Croat seat in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2006 Bosnian general election. He received 116,062 votes, or 39.6% ahead of Ivo Miro Jović (HDZ; 26.1%), Božo Ljubić (HDZ 1990; 18.2%), Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović (NSRB; 8.5%), Zvonko Jurišić (HSP; 6.9%) and Irena Javor-Korjenić (0.7%). He was sworn into office on 1 October 2006. His victory was widely attributed to a split in the HDZ-BiH party, enabling the SDP to win a majority of the Bosniaks votes.
  Croats see him as an illegitimate representative of the Bosnian Croats because he was elected mostly by Bosniak voters.
  In May 2008, the Bosniak Member of the Presidency at the time, Haris Silajdžić, stated during his visit to Washington, D. C. that there is only one language in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it goes by three names. His statement created negative reactions from Croat political parties and, at the time, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. 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.
caption: Komšić alongside U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on 23 September 2009.
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