Staatspräsidentschaft und Parlament in der neuen Verfassung Jugoslawiens
State Presidency and Parliament in the New Constitution of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the role to be played by the nine-member state collective leadership called the Presidency of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, or briefly, the State Presidency. While President Tito lives, the State Presidency is expected to play a minor role. After Tito's disappearance from the political scene, it will automatically assume all the power which President Tito holds today. The new Constitution, passed in the Belgrade Federal Assembly on 21 February of this year, gives rather great rights to this body, of which the President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia is an ex officio member. The State Presidency will be in an equally strong position vis-á-vis the Assembly of the SFRY and the government. In both cases, the new Constitution makes this state collective leadership extremely powerful. One must, however, await the publication of the new Standing Rules of the State Presidency in order to learn how its nine members will have to vote in order to reach agreement.

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