Muslim Bosniak Organisation

The Muslim Bosniak Organisation (Bosnian: Muslimanska bošnjačka organizacija; abbr. MBO) was a mainly liberal political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by former Party of Democratic Action members Adil Zulfikarpašić and Muhamed Filipović.

Muslim Bosniak Organisation Muslimanska bošnjačka organizacija
Founders	Adil Zulfikarpašić Muhamed Filipović
Founded	1990
Dissolved	28 December 2009
Headquarters	Sarajevo
Ideology	Liberalism Secularism Anti-nationalism
Political position	Big tent
Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina Political parties Elections

History

The Muslim Bosniak Organisation (MBO) was founded in 1990 by Adil Zulfikarpašić and Muhamed Filipović. The party was established shortly after Zulfikarpašić's and Filipović's political disagreements with Alija Izetbegović, the founder of the Party of Democratic Action.^[1] The MBO advocated the affirmation of the national name Bosniak instead of Muslim, liberalism, secularism and anti-nationalism.

The party first contested the 1990 general elections, receiving 1.15% of the national vote and winning two seats.^[2] In the 1996 general election it joined the Joint List alliance alongside the Social Democratic Party, the Union of Social Democrats, the Croatian Peasant Party and the Republican Party.^[3] Candidates for the Bosniak and Croat members of the Presidency, Sead Avdić and Ivo Komšić, were not elected.^[4] In the election for the national House of Representatives, the Joint List received 5.68% of the vote and won two of the 42 seats.

The MBO did not contest any further elections.^[5] The party was officialy dissolved in December 2009.^[6]

Elections

Parliamentary elections

Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	#	Popular vote	%	Seats won	Government
1990	7th	25,975	1.15	2 / 240	Opposition

Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year	#	Popular vote	%	HoR	Seat change	HoP	Seat change	Government
1996^[a]	4th	136,203	5.68	0 / 42	New	0 / 15	New	Extra-parliamentary

Presidency elections

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Election year	#	Candidate	Votes	%	Representing	Elected?
1996^[a]	2nd	Ivo Komšić^[b]	37,684	10.1%	Croats	No
	4th	Sead Avdić^[c]	21,254	2.3%	Bosniaks	No

Notes

1. Run as part of the Joint List.
2. Member of the HSS.
3. Member of the SDP BiH.

References

1. "Mr. Milosevic's examination-in-chief in relation to Bosnia". ICTY. 7 February 2006. from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
2. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p339 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
3. Nohlen & Stöver, p332
4. "Izbori u BiH 1996. godine" (in Bosnian). N1. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
5. Nohlen & Stöver, p333
6. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.