Dragan Čović

Dragan Čović is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 4th Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2018. He is currently serving as a member of the national House of Peoples, and has been the president of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2005. During his first term in the Presidency, Čović was removed from office in 2005 by High Representative Paddy Ashdown for abuse of power and position. He has also held the role of Federal Minister of Finance from 1998 to 2001, and was the acting Federal Prime Minister from January to March 2001.