PREDSEDNIŠTVO SFRJ: BEZ AUTORITETA I HARIZME
THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SFRY: WITHOUT AUTHORITY AND CHARISMA

Author(s): Božo Repe
Subject(s): History, Political history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: The question of who would take over the country after Josip Broz Tito began to be raised in socialist Yugoslavia in the 1960s. According to the first postwar constitution, which was adopted in 1946 and copied the Soviet Constitution of 1936, the function of the collective president of the state was performed by the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, the successor of the AVNOJ Presidency. It was elected by the People’s Assembly and was responsible to it. The Presidium was composed of the president, six vice-presidents, a secretary and (maximum) 30 members, and (apart from passing laws) had significant powers including the power to dissolve the assembly, ratify laws, assess the compliance of republican laws with the federal constitution, appoint the prime minister, appoint ambassadors (at the government’s proposal), ratify international treaties, declare martial law and mobilization, call a referendum and the like.

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