Freedom of expression during each chair of the Council of Ministers's tenure

Every chair of the Council of Ministers since 1991, ranked by how the freedom of expression changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Chair of the Council of Ministers	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Adnan Terzić	23 Dec 2002 – 11 Jan 2007	0.0 points 2002 → 2006	0.0 points/yr
2	Nikola Špirić	11 Jan 2007 – 12 Jan 2012	−0.1 points 2006 → 2011	0.0 points/yr
3	Vjekoslav Bevanda	12 Jan 2012 – 31 Mar 2015	−0.9 points 2011 → 2014	−0.3 points/yr
4	Borjana Krišto	25 Jan 2023 – now	−0.9 points 2022 → 2025	−0.3 points/yr
5	Zoran Tegeltija	23 Dec 2019 – 25 Jan 2023	−1.9 points 2019 → 2022	−0.6 points/yr
6	Denis Zvizdić	31 Mar 2015 – 23 Dec 2019	−5.5 points 2014 → 2019	−1.1 points/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, V-Dem's 0 to 1 index times 100 · V-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100 · Bosnia and Herzegovina data · as of Sep 2026.