page_title: Zlatko Lagumdžija
section_title: Post-war political career
hierarchical_section_title: Zlatko Lagumdžija / Political career / Post-war political career
caption_attribution_description: Την Τετάρτη 24 Απριλίου 2013, ο Υπουργός Εξωτερικών, Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος συναντήθηκε στο Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών με τον Υπουργό Εξωτερικών της Βοσνίας και Ερζεγοβίνης κ. Zlatko Lagumdzija, ο οποίος πραγματοποιεί επίσκεψη στη χώρα μας.
context_page_description: Zlatko Lagumdžija is a Bosnian former politician.
  He was the 2nd president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2014.
context_section_description: As a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lagumdžija has served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly from 1996 until 2014. He has been the president of the SDP from 1997 to 2014. 
  In the 2000 general elections, the SDP formed a coalition with the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH), a party founded and led by former wartime prime minister Haris Silajdžić, to gain the majority and force the nationalist parties out of power. They gathered a coalition of many other small parties to create the "Alliance for Change."
  Lagumdžija became the Foreign Minister, a post he served in from 2001–03, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, (i.e. the Prime Minister, as which he served until 2002).
  When the SDP came into political power on a platform of economic reform and anti-corruption, Lagumdžija was lauded by the Western powers as the hopeful "face of a pluralistic, united Bosnia." 
  The SPD-led government facilitated the passage of the Election Law, which was not only an important step towards democracy, but also a prerequisite to Bosnia's accession to the Council of Europe. 
  The SDP led the coalition government until the October 2002 general elections, when the public, dissatisfied at the pace of political reform, elected the nationalist parties back into power.
  On May 18, 2019, he was removed from the SDP due to his political activity in own new political party.
caption: Lagumdžija with former Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos on 24 April 2013 in Athens.
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