At the SDA Congress, 1,285 delegates elect the party president, vice presidents, Main Board...

(Patria) - The Eighth Congress of the Party of Democratic Action will be held on Saturday, October 14, in the Juan Antonio Samaranch Hall.

The only candidate for the president of the Party of Democratic Action who meets the statutory requirements is Bakir Izetbegović, while there are 25 candidates on the list for vice presidents, and nine vice presidents will be elected.

The Congress also elects members of the Main Board, Supervisory Board, and Ethics Committee of the SDA.

The Main Board has 115 members. Some of them are ex officio members, and others are elected at the congress. The ex officio members of the Main Board, 18 of them, are: the SDA president, the presidents of the cantonal/regional SDA organizations, and the president of the SDA Brčko District.

The SDA Congress elects 83 members of the Main Board from the cantonal/regional organizations and the SDA Brčko District organization according to the structure determined by the SDA Main Board based on criteria based on election results.

At the proposal of the SDA president, the members of the Main Board elected at the congress and the ex officio members of the Main Board elect another 14 members of the Main Board to ensure more equitable representation of all segments of the membership (ensuring ethnic, qualification, gender, age representation, and representation of SDA members from abroad). The Main Board is competent to make decisions on holding regular and extraordinary congresses.

Five members will be elected to the Supervisory Board, and 11 members to the Ethics Committee by secret ballot.

Numerous guests, representatives of political entities from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from abroad, will attend the 8th SDA Congress.

This year's Congress has 1,285 delegates and is the highest body of the SDA. It consists of delegates elected in elections and ex officio delegates. Congress delegates are elected by the assemblies of municipal/city and SDA Brčko District BiH organizations, or the assemblies of cantonal/regional organizations.

Ex officio delegates to the congress are the SDA president, members of the Main Board, Presidency, Supervisory Board, and Ethics Committee, as well as all elected mayors/heads of municipalities, councilors, deputies, and delegates in all representative bodies at all levels of government, with an active mandate.

One of the delegates to tomorrow's Congress is the state representative in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Šemsudin Mehmedović. His candidacy for SDA president was rejected, and in his reaction, he stated that he is not giving up on the mission of building a better SDA. He did not clearly state whether he would leave the party after tomorrow's Congress, but he has presented an idea for a new movement in the public sphere, which he has also offered to other political options.