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This paper examines the procedures, content, and implementation of the first post-socialist constitution of Serbia (1990); the implementation of the first post-socialist constitution and the creation of new Yugoslavia (1992) and the state union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003); and the implementation of the new constitution of Serbia in 2006 after the fall of the Milošević regime. Special attention has been paid to the status of the president of the republic in the 1990 constitution, which created the opportunity to implement a de facto dictatorship. This paper also examines the social context; the Kosovo crisis; the legal procedures; the political, academic and public debates regarding the adoption of the new, and; the Serbian constitution still having been valid in 2006 after the dissolution of the state union with Montenegro.
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The first multiparty elections for the National Assembly of Serbia after the Second World War were held on December 9 and 23, 1990 on the basis of the new constitution of Serbia. The SPS won 194 seats, or 77.6 % of the total 250 seats in the Assembly. The SPS was created on July 16, 1990 with the unification of the League of Communists of Serbia (Saveza komunista Srbije—SKS) and Socialist Alliance of Working People of Serbia (Socijalističkog saveza radnog naroda Srbije—SSRNS). Slobodan Milošević was elected as president. Therefore, in Serbia at this time, we observe a clear continuity of the communist government reformed through SPS (Orlović 2008, 141).
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Appendix: Constitutional Politics in Serbia 1990–2014
Appendix: Constitutional Politics in Serbia 1990–2014
Dates of amendment and implementation | Articles | Constitutional subfields | Short analysis of the reform process |
|---|---|---|---|
10/28 + 29/2006 (referendum)/11/08/2006 | New constitution | – | • Core reform (new constitution) • Main actor: National Assembly of Serbia • Regular amendment by National Assembly (final vote: unanimously with 242 votes), approved in a referendum (final vote: 97.31 % “yes”, 54.91 % of the electorate took part, i.e. 51.47 % of the electorate voted “yes”) • Duration: about 2 years |
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Banović, D. (2016). Serbia. In: Fruhstorfer, A., Hein, M. (eds) Constitutional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13762-5_11
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