Talk:Željko Komšić/Archive 1

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Your Nikola Tesla example is different, because Smiljan wasn't part of an entity known as "Croatia" when Tesla was born. However, Sarajevo was in BiH when Komšić was born. Also, there is the problem that your edit is confusing. It confuses the reader: does Yugoslavia still exist? Is BiH a part of it? etc I don't really understand your motivation either, you're the last person I'd expect would want the reader to think BiH is part of Yugoslavia. --estavisti 13:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I suppose that for every serb born between 1389 and 1878 we should list the palce of birth as xxxxx, serbia, ottoman empire. If you'd like I will be happy to go back to every page and make those adjustments.--Bigz 22 October 2006 11:43 (EDT)

I agree. In all seriousness, go for it. Anyway, you seem to be misunderstanding my positon. I want it to say "(then Yugoslavia)", whereas LiveForever (a Bosniak) wants it to say simply "Yugoslavia", making it sound like it's part of Yugoslavia now. I wonder which you prefer? --estavisti 19:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The "then" is simply superflous, and not the way it's typically done on biography infoboxes. Do you seriously believe that anyone who bothers looking up Željko Komšić doesn't understand that Bosnia-Herzegovina was once part of Yugoslavia? Furthermore, the change would even be described in the article itself due to his role in the former state's disintegration. Live Forever 23:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh I don't care. Is anyone even going to read about this non-entity? --estavisti 01:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Livno, Tomislavgrad, Kupres, Posušje, Ljubuški, Široki Brijeg, Grude, Čapljina, Čitluk, Mostar, Neum, Prozor-Rama, Ravno, Stolac, Domaljevac-Šamac, Odžak, Orašje, Busovača, Dobretići, Gornji Vakuf, Kiseljak, Kreševo, Vitez, Usora, and Žepče are all Croat majority places. Guess which party the mayor belongs to in each place? That's right, the HDZ (with the exception of Tomislavgrad, which went for the HSP.) I have yet to see an SDP mayor in BiH. The reason why the election was seen as unfair is already mentioned in the article, because there was no distinguishing among ethnic lines in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, meaning that Bosnian Muslims could vote for the Croatian president and parliament. It is hard to determine the truth when there is no reliable data for voting in BiH. --Jesuislafete 08:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Tuzla's mayor is from the SDP. As far as the elections are concerned, even if Bosniaks only voted for Bosniaks and Croats only voted for Croats, that could also be taken advantage of. How do you define who's who? Would you register as part of a group? If so, Bosniaks could simply register as Croats days before the election and vote for the Croatian member of Presidency. Then you'd have the same problem. The real problem is the concept of the three-member-Presidency itself. There should be ONE President. And since, obviously, Bosniaks would win out most of the time since they are the largest group, that position should be very limited to foreign policy matters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by As3000 (talk • contribs) 10:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Why isn't there a cristicsism section in the article?
Komsic hes been recieving loads of critics from it's own people.90% of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina didn't vote for him.He was elected by Muslim votes because of the idiotic election system in Bosnia and Herzegovina which allows one nation to vote for the representative of the other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.129.112.165 (talk) 17:24, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Ethnicity
In the category section, Komšić is categorised as a "Bosniak politican". Are there any reliable sources to confirm this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gradanin (talk • contribs) 05:20, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

on being illegitimate
First of all, this is a political statement that is hardly appropriate in the lead section without secondary sources. The sources listed are hardly secondary. The English-language ref to The Globalist says:


 * The Croat and Muslim presidency members, while constitutionally leaders of their respective communities, are both directly elected by Federation voters regardless of their ethnicity.
 * The result suggests that substantial numbers of Muslims must have voted for the SDP's Željko Komšic.
 * Though it is inaccurate to say — as many nationalist Croats have — that this somehow makes Komšic's election illegitimate, it simply exposes the absurdity of the system of governance Bosnia got at Dayton.

Wuchtenfuchs, using this reference to claim what it's not saying is disingenuous and a hallmark of POV pushing. I then had a look at the other sources, and many were from non-notable outlets. Nino Raspudić has made his position known on numerous occasions while speaking to e.g. Croatian Radiotelevision - cite that, or an article from a mainstream newspaper. References to hrsvijet.net/posavski-obzor.info and akos.ba are pointless. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 08:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)