Administration
Tuzla is the seat of the Tuzla Canton, which is a canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of Tuzla Municipality, which is one of the 13 municipalities that together constitute the Tuzla Canton. Administratively, Tuzla is divided into 39 mjesne zajednice (local districts).
Apart from Tuzla, the municipality incorporates several other adjacent settlements, including the town of Gornja Tuzla (Upper Tuzla), as well as the villages of Husino, Par Selo, Simin Han, Obodnica, Kamenjaši, Plane, Šići and others.
The Mayor of Tuzla Municipality is Jasmin Imamović, a writer and lawyer born in 1957, of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was reelected to a third term in 2008.
The City council of Tuzla has 30 members, of the following parties:
- Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP) - 14 members
- Party of Democratic Action (SDA) - 6 members
- Bosnian Party (BOSS) - 4 members
- Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH) - 2 members
- People's Party Work for Betterment (Narodna stranka Radom za boljitak) - 2 members
- Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ) - 2 members.
The Chairwoman of the City Council, Nada Mladina, is a member of the SDP.
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