f the Croat vote followed
RADISIC in the rotation; Alija IZETBEGOVIC with 87% of the Bosniak
vote won the highest number of votes in the election but was
ineligible to serve a second term until RADISIC and JELAVIC had each
served a first term as Chairman of the Presidency; IZETBEGOVIC
retired from the presidency 14 October 2000 and was temporarily
replaced by Halid GENJAC; Ante JELAVIC was replaced by Jozo
KRIZANOVIC in March 2001

note: President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Karlo
FILIPOVIC (since 27 February 2001); Vice President Safet HALILOVIC
(since 27 February 2001); note - president and vice president rotate
every year; President of the Republika Srpska: Mirko SAROVIC (since
11 November 2000)

Legislative branch: bicameral Parliamentary Assembly or Skupstina
consists of the National House of Representatives or Predstavnicki
Dom (42 seats - 14 Serb, 14 Croat, and 14 Bosniak; members elected
by popular vote to serve two-year terms) and the House of Peoples or
Dom Naroda (15 seats - 5 Bosniak, 5 Croat, 5 Serb; members elected
by the Bosniak/Croat Federation's House of Representatives and the
Republika Srpska's National Assembly to serve two-year terms); note
- as of 1 January 2001, Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have a
permanent election law; a draft law specifies four-year terms for
the state and first-order administrative division entity
legislatures; officials elected in 2000 were elected to two-year
terms on the presumption that a permanent law would be in place
before 2002

elections: National House of Representatives - elections last held
11 November 2000 (next to be held in the fall of 2002); House of
Peoples - last constituted after the 11 November 2000 elections
(next to be constituted in the fall of 2002)

election results: National House of Representatives - percent of
vote by party/coalition - NA%; seats by party/coalition - SDP 9, SDA
8, SDS 6, HDZ-BiH 5, SBH 5, PDP 2, NHI 1, BPS 1, DPS 1, SNS 1,
SNSD-DSP 1, DNZ 1, SPRS 1; House of Peoples - percent of vote by
party/coalition - NA%; seats by party/coalition - NA

note: the Bosniak/Croat Federation has a bicameral legislature that
consists of a House of Representatives (140 seats; members elected
by popular vote to serve four-year terms); elections last held 11
November 2000 (next to be held NA 2002); percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party/coalition - SDA 38, SDP 37, HDZ-BiH 25, SBH 21,
DNZ 3, NHI 2, BPS 2, DPS 2, BOS