Four and a half months after the general election, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity’s House of Peoples (HoP) will hold its inaugural session on Wednesday, when 55 out of 58 delegates will be elected – 17 Bosniaks, just as many Croats, 14 Serbs and seven “Others.”

Serb delegates will fill the remaining three mandates after the House of Peoples implements the Central Election Commission’s (CIK) instruction on how to form the new House of Peoples.

Namely, the FBiH HoP delegates are elected when all the cantons submit their representative lists to the CIK for confirmation.

This year, the process took months because the CIK had to change the election procedure after the authorities failed to amend the State Election Law.

In 2016, the Constitutional Court decided to abolish several articles from the Law treating this matter because they were contrary to the Constitution.

Two years have passed since and the State Parliamentary Assembly failed to agree on these amendments in spite of countless attempts and meetings. Therefore, the CIK had to provide a solution as to how the delegates would be elected across the cantons.

The coalition with most delegates in the House is the one led by the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) with 14 delegates, followed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) with 11 delegates and the Democratic Action party (SDA) with nine delegates.