PROCEEDINGS OF THE RADICAL GROUP OF 1886 IN NIŠ – ANSWER TO KING MILAN Cover Image

ЗАПИСНИК СА СКУПА РАДИКАЛА 1886. ГОДИНЕ У НИШУ – ОДГОВОР КРАЉУ МИЛАНУ
PROCEEDINGS OF THE RADICAL GROUP OF 1886 IN NIŠ – ANSWER TO KING MILAN

Author(s): Suzana Rajić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Diplomatic history, Political history, 19th Century
Published by: Istorijski institut, Beograd
Keywords: King Milan Obrenović; Radical Party; Pera Todorović; political parties; coalition; Progressives; party programme

Summary/Abstract: The offer of King Milan Obrenović to the Radicals for consensual work in 1886 was the third in a row since the parties were founded in modern-day Serbia in 1881. It was made at a time when peace talks were under way with Bulgaria after the unsuccessful war. Under the instructions of Nikola Pašić from emigration, the radicals assembled in Niš in 1886 told the King in the ultimate tone that they were willing to help him if he put back in force all the political laws suspended on the eve of the Timok rebellion. They also requested a new constitution and introduction of universal suffrage, abolition of the death penalty, organisation of districts as administrative units, extension of the rights of the National Assembly to the legislative initiative, and an exclusive budgetary law. The king did not agree to these conditions. Nevertheless, negotiations gradually continued in other ways, leading to a solution accepted by the moderate wing of the Radical Party in 1888.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 143-155
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian