A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections.

See political party for a more comprehensive discussion.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Every ethnic community has its own dominant political party.

The parties

The general rule on naming applies. That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics: See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).

• Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica)
• Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu)
• Party of Democratic Action (Stranka demokratske akcije)
• Serb Democratic Party (Srpska demokratska stranka)
• Social Democratic Party BiH (Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine–Socijaldemokrati)
• Party of Independent Social Democrats (Stranka nezavisnih socijaldemokrata)
• Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa)

See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals