ASSEMBLY OF AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF VOJVODINA AND REPRESENTATION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES
Keywords:
national minorities, Assembly of AP Vojvodina, electoral systems, elections, parliamentary representationAbstract
The article focuses on 8 electoral cycles conducted under 4 different systems and analyzes the way in which different electoral rules affected minority representation in the Assembly of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. AP Vojvodina is ethnically most diversed region of Serbia, and therefore parliamentary representation of national minorities is of outmost importance.
Analysis shows that minorities have been represented in the Assembly through all electoral systems, and minority MPs were elected from all party lists, not just lists of the national minority parties. The same can be concluded when it comes to majority electoral systems where candidates who belong to national minorities were coming from all parties in constituencies populated by national minorities were living.
Through analysis of effects which different electoral systems have on minority representation article concludes that often number of seats held by minority MPs is not consequence of the electoral system and does not reflect position of that minority in society, but rather is a consequence of political relations among parties, electoral success of the parties which traditionally include candidates who belong to national minorities and overall political situation in the country.
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