Assembly of Yugoslavia

Politics of Yugoslavia
Constitution 1921 1931 1946 1953 1963 1974
Executive Legislative Head of State Deputy Head of State President (1953–80) Vice President (1963–67) Presidency (1971–91) President of the Presidency (1980–91) Vice President of the Presidency (1971–91) Members Government (1918–53) Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister Assembly (list) President Federal Executive Council (1953–92) President (1963–92) Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order (1975–92)
Elections Constituent 1920 Parliamentary 1923 1925 1927 1931 1935 1938 1945 1950 1953 1958 1963 1969 1974 1978 1982 1986 1989 Political parties
Administrative divisions Kingdom of Yugoslavia Banovina of Croatia Subdivisions SFR Yugoslavia SR Bosnia and Herzegovina SR Croatia SR Macedonia SR Montenegro SR Serbia SAP Kosovo SAP Vojvodina SR Slovenia
Breakup Yugoslav Wars (Slovenian Croatian Bosnian)
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The Parliament of Yugoslavia was the

The first parliamentary body of the state was the Temporary National Representation which existed until the first elections were held on 28 November 1920. The new parliament was known as the Constitutional Assembly. The assembly adopted the Vidovdan Constitution on 28 June 1921, after which it became known as the National Assembly.

After the end of the

With the adoption of a constitution in 1946, the name National Assembly was adopted again. It was divided into two councils (chambers):^[1] the Federal Council, and the Council of Peoples.^[2] With the amendment of the constitution in 1953, the Federal People's Assembly was divided into the Federal Council and the Council of Producers (from 1953 until 1967 the Council of Nations was a "sub-chamber" within the Federal Council).

In 1963 with the adoption of a new constitution, the Federal Assembly was divided into five chambers: the Federal Council, the Economic Council, Educational-Cultural Council, Social-Health Council and the Organization-Political Council.^[3] In 1967 the Council of Nations became it separate chamber, while in 1968 the Federal Council was demoted in favor of the Council of Nations and the Organization-Political Council changed its name into Socio-Political Council. The Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia was the only pentacameral (later hexacameral) legislature in political history.^[4]

After the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution was adopted, the Assembly of the SFRY was bicameral, with the lower house called the Federal Chamber and an upper house called the Chamber of Republics and Provinces. The Federal Chamber had 30 members from each Republic and 20 from each Autonomous Province, while the Chamber of Republics and Provinces had 12 members from each Republic and 8 from each Autonomous Province. The Assembly was composed of members of the League of Communists from each constituent republic appointed by electoral colleges chosen at different levels in the legal hierarchy through complex procedures.^[5]

When the League of Communists

Gallery

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  The parliament in 1936
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  The parliament in 1945
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  The parliament in 1958

See also

• List of presidents of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro
  • List of presidents of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro
• National Assembly of Serbia
  - Serbia's parliament which is housed in the same building that had been the Federal Assembly building
• Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatian Parliament
• Parliament of Montenegro
• Assembly of North Macedonia
• Slovenian Parliament

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