| Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Skupstina / Parliamentary Assembly |
| Structure of parliament |
Bicameral |
| Chamber name (generic / translated) |
Predstavnicki dom / House of Representatives |
| Related chamber (for bicameral parliaments) |
Dom Naroda / House of Peoples
|
| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
12 April 1996
|
| Mode of designation |
directly elected 42 |
| Constituencies |
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republika Srpska |
| Voting system |
Proportional:
Proportional representation system based on party lists or independent candidatures, using the simple quotient and greatest remainders formula for left-over seats. Only parties having won at least one seat in the initial (simple quotient) allocation qualify for the latter allotment.
Voting is not compulsory. |
| Voter requirements |
- age: 18 years
- citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| CANDIDATES |
| Eligibility |
- qualified electors
- age: 18 years
- citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- ineligibility: persons serving a sentence imposed by International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, under indictment by the Tribunal or having failed to comply with an appearance order by the Tribunal |
| Incompatibilities |
- judges
- prosecutors and their deputies
- solicitors and their deputies
- ombudsmen and their deputies
- members of courts/council for human rights
- members of police and military forces (incluiding financial police, judicial police, State Border Service members, security and intelligence service)
- diplomatic and consular representatives
- members of the Executive |
| Candidacy requirements |
- individual or party (single or coalition) candidatures
- for registration, each political party needs signed backing of at least 10,000 electors
- individual candidates need the support of at least 5,000 electors |
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