Cabinet of Nikola Špirić I
The Ninth Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian and Croatian: Deveti saziv Vijeća ministara Bosne i Hercegovine, ) was the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina cabinet formed on 11 January 2007, following the 2006 general election. It was led by Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikola Špirić. The cabinet was dissolved on 20 February 2008 and was succeeded by a new Council of Ministers presided over by Špirić. History The First Špirić cabinet was formed on 11 January 2007, following the 2006 general election. At the election, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), of which Špirić is part of, won the most parliamentary seats in Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the third most seats in the whole country with 46.9% of the vote. This secured the SNSD a part of a majority coalition government in the Council of Ministers. Three months after the election, the new Council of Ministers was formed with Špirić presiding. Ten months after the government's formation, on 1 November, Špirić tendered his resignation in protest of parliamentary reforms imposed by High Representative Miroslav Lajčák. Špirić felt that the reforms would reduce the influence