PARLAMENTARNO PREDSTAVNIŠTVO NACIONALNIH MANJINA I NJIHOVA ZASTUPLJENOST U DRUGIM ORGANIMA DRŽAVNE I JAVNE VLASTI U REPUBLICI SRBIJI
THE REPRESENTATION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE PARLIAMENT AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN OTHER BODIES OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Author(s): Slaven Bačić
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: national minorities; political representation of national minorities; representation of national minorities in national authorities; accession of Serbia to the European Union; Framework Convention for
Summary/Abstract: Representation of national minorities in elected bodies at all levels of power and their participation in public administration is not yet on satisfactory level in Republic of Serbia. The waiver of the 5% threshold for minority political parties in election for national parliament is regularly effected only on the two largest minorities (Hungarians and Bosniaks). It is necessary to ensure that numerically smaller national minorities must be represented in national parliament in order to take a role in decision making process. Guaranteed seats for national minorities in parliaments have become almost a standard minority right in region. This solution is about to ensure effective participation minorities in political process, as a condition for effective integration national minorities in Serbian society. To evaluate participation of national minorities in public administration, that is usually considered as a mainly satisfactory in local and regional levels, but not on national level, the main condition is to collect data on the representation of national minorities at all levels of power. Afterwards the activities included in Action plan for the exercise of the rights of national minorities must be implemented during the Process of Accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union.

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