The position of women in electoral process in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 2014

Abstract

An essential element of politics, political process and elections are women, without whom, neither human society nor political or electoral processes would exist. One of the essential elements which affects the position of women in politics and the electoral process itself and gender equality, are normative provisions by which the electoral process is regulated what may be noticed at many examples in many legislatures in the area of Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and other states. The percentage of women at the political scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina had been negligible until OSCE's Interim Electoral Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina normatively regulated the duty that all parties had to put at electoral lists at least three women among the first ten candidates respectively. Since then, at the first subsequent elections the situation has changed in favour of greater presence of women in politics and political institutions and so on.

Keywords

• women
• politics
• political institutions
• elections
• electoral process