The Muslim Bosniak Organisation (; abbr. MBO) was a mainly liberal political party in

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. It was founded by former

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members

Adil Zulfikarpašić Adil Zulfikarpašić (23 December 1921 – 21 July 2008) was a Bosniak intellectual and politician who served as vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, under the first president of the Presi ...

and

Muhamed Filipović Muhamed Filipović (3 August 1929 – 25 February 2020) was a Bosnian academic, writer, essayist, theorist and philosopher. As a young man he took part in the communist takeover of power and Yugoslav Partisans in 1945. He worked as a professor a ...

History

The Muslim Bosniak Organisation (MBO) was founded in 1990 by

and

. The party was established shortly after Zulfikarpašić's and Filipović's political disagreements with

Alija Izetbegović Alija Izetbegović (; 8 August 1925 – 19 October 2003) was a Bosnian politician, Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosopher and author, who in 1992 became the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, president of the Presidency ...

, the founder of the

. The MBO advocated the affirmation of the national name

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instead of

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and

anti-nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, Id ...

. The party first contested the 1990 general elections, receiving 1.15% of the national vote and winning two seats. In the 1996 general election it joined the

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alliance alongside the

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, the

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, the

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and the Republican Party. Candidates for the Bosniak and Croat members of the

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, Sead Avdić and

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, were not elected. In the election for the national

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, the Joint List received 5.68% of the vote and won two of the 42 seats. The MBO did not contest any further elections. The party was officially dissolved in December 2009.

Elections

Parliamentary elections

Presidency elections

Notes

References

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