[1] Their success continued as their chair member Dr. Ivo Komšić got elected as Mayor of Sarajevo on 27 March 2013.
The main idea of founding SDU BiH was to preserve and affirm Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign, constitutional, democratic state whose borders are inviolable, whose life space was ethnical inseparable, and whose prosperity was in The European Union and in Euro-Atlantic integration.
They are supported an idea of stronger political identification with Bosnia and Herzegovina as a homeland for all nationals of the country.
[3] The presidency and upper leadership of the party consisted of prominent Bosnian personalities from the political sphere of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Some of the members included Stjepan Kljuić, Nijaz Duraković, Ivo Komšić, Miro Lazović and Emir Zlatar.