Nijaz Duraković

Duraković died on 29 January 2012 in Sarajevo following a heart attack, at the age of 63.

Duraković served as the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina alongside Alija Izetbegović from 1993 to 1996, most of it during the Bosnian War. He was the founder and first president of the Social Democratic Party. He also served as member of the national House of Representatives from 2002 until 2006.

On 20 October 1993, Duraković became a member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, serving alongside Alija Izetbegović until 5 October 1996. At the 2002 general election, he was elected to the national House of Representatives, serving as its member until 6 November 2006

Nijaz Duraković (1 January 1949 – 29 January 2012) was a Bosnian author, intellectual, professor and politician who served as the 9th and final president of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1989 to 1990. He is widely considered to have been one of the most influential modern authors on sociopolitical issues in the region of his generation.

Born in January 1949, Duraković died in January 2012 at the age of 63.

Duraković was born in Stolac, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia on 1 January 1949 to Hakija and Ćamila. He completed his primary and secondary education there, and then his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in sociology at the University of Sarajevo. He served as the last president of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 29 June 1989 until December 1990, and as the first president of the Social Democratic Party from 27 December 1992 to 6 April 1997.