THE POLITICAL SCENE OF VOJVODINA, FROM SOCIJAL SPLITS TO POLITICAL CONFRONTATION

Abstract

The discontinuity and dynamism of the political system of Serbia is a result of many factors, one of them being the autonomous units on its territory. Serbia was the only one of the six former republics of Yugoslavia, with two autonomous units, which was a decision of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Constitutional-legal status of autonomous units, especially after the adoption of the Constitution in 1974, attracted a number of supporters of autonomy aspirations, secessionist movements and organizations. Having introduced a multiparty system, in the nineties of the twentieth century , regional and ethnic parties have been formed in Serbia, especially in the regions with the higher concentration of ethnicity votes. After that, these parties openly, through their programs and actions, have advocated various forms of autonomy and secession of certain parts of the country, often crossing the boundaries of the constitutional and legal provisions and democratic principles. Turbulence within the political system of Serbia, when it comes to its party system, basically, was drawn by the lines of social division that contained ethnic, cultural, historical, socioeconomic and other factors that have contributed to the fragmentation of a specific party subsystem created in Vojvodina.