Kemal Ademović

Kemal Ademović
Ademović in 2024
Member of the House of Peoples
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 February 2023
Personal details
Born (1961-08-10) 10 August 1961
Srebrenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Sarajevo (LL.B.)

Kemal Ademović (born 10 August 1961) is a Bosnian politician and former intelligence officer serving as member of the national House of Peoples since February 2023. A former member of the Party of Democratic Action, he left the party in 2018 to join People and Justice.

Born in Srebrenica in 1961, Ademović graduated from the University of Sarajevo. He worked in the Bosnian Special Police Units. Prior to his political career, Ademović served as director of the State Intelligence Agency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. He was elected to the Assembly of the Sarajevo Canton in 2010, and was re-elected in 2014. Following the 2022 general election, Ademović was appointed member of the national House of Peoples.

Early life and education

Ademović was born in Srebrenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia,[1] on 10 August 1961, and he is a Bosniak.[2] He became a police officer in 1980, and joined the Bosnian Special Police Units in 1982. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Sarajevo in 1992.[1]

Career

Ademović was appointed director of the State Intelligence Agency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.[3] He served in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and was awarded the Order of the Golden Lily, which was at the time the highest state order awarded for military merits.[4]

Ademović joined the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), and was elected to the Assembly of the Sarajevo Canton in the 2010 general election.[5] He was re-elected in the 2014 general election.[6] During his tenure, he served as deputy chair of the assembly.[1] Ademović left the SDA in dissent to join People and Justice (NiP) in 2018.[7] Ademović was a founding member of NiP and was elected as its deputy president in 2021. Following the 2022 general election, he was appointed member of the national House of Peoples in February 2023.[8]

During his tenure in the House of Peoples, Ademović has served on the Constitutional and Legal committee.[9] On 16 February 2023, he became vice-chairman of the house under chairman Nikola Špirić.[10] The position of chair rotates around the three members of the Collegium, whose current members are Ademović, Špirić and Dragan Čović. Ademović served as chairman from October 2023 to June 2024, and will serve again from October 2025 to June 2026.[2]

In June 2024, the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched an investigation into Ademović, former Intelligence-Security Agency director Osman Mehmedagić, and former Presidency member Bakir Izetbegović after former intelligence agent Edin Garaplija accused them of being involved in a criminal organisation in 1996, which conducted politically-motivated murders. Garaplija was a witness for the trials of war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.[3]

Personal life

Ademović's son, Jasmin, is also a member of People and Justice and served as speaker of the Sarajevo City Council from 2021 to 2025.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kemal Ademović". Istinomjer. Archived from the original on 19 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Bosnia and Herzegovina". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Tužilaštvo BiH formiralo predmet protiv Izetbegovića, Mehmedagića i Ademovića". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 25 June 2024. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Narod i pravda o Laburistima BiH: Napadi Fikreta Abdića su potvrda da smo na ispravnom putu". Klix.ba. 9 February 2020. Archived from the original on 10 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Rezultati izbora 2010". izbori.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Rezultati izbora 2014". izbori.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 18 July 2025.
  7. ^ "Klub SDA u Skupštini KS napustili Ademović, Okerić i Mekić, pridružili se Konakoviću". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). 11 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  8. ^ Sedin Spahić (16 February 2023). "Izabrano rukovodstvo Doma naroda BiH: Špirić predsjedavajući, Čović i Ademović zamjenici" (in Bosnian). Dnevni avaz. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Ademovic, Kemal". House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  10. ^ "Bosnia-Herzegovina's Parliamentary Body Sworn In With Chairman Who Is Blacklisted By Washington". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 16 February 2023. Archived from the original on 3 July 2025.
  11. ^ N.V. (26 March 2021). "Jasmin Ademović izabran za predsjedavajućeg Gradskog vijeća Sarajeva" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  12. ^ Hadzovic, Danijal (8 October 2024). "Općinska organizacija u Centru doživjela potpuni debakl: Otac i sin Ademović najveći moralni gubitnici ovih izbora". Dnevni avaz. Archived from the original on 22 July 2025.
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