| Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Skupstina / Parliamentary Assembly |
| Structure of parliament |
Bicameral |
| Chamber name (generic / translated) |
Dom Naroda / House of Peoples |
| Related chamber (for bicameral parliaments) |
Predstavnicki dom / House of Representatives
|
| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
12 April 1996
|
| Mode of designation |
appointed 15 |
| Constituencies |
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska. |
| Voting system |
:
The ten delegates from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (five Croats and five Muslims) are designated by the delegates of the same communities to the local House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Delegates from the Republika Srpska are designated by the National Assembly of that same Republic. |
| 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 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
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| Incompatibilities |
(data unaivalable) |
| 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 support of at least 5,000 electors |
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