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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary ...
The 1974 constitution gave the then 82-year old Tito an unlimited mandate, making him president-for-life. [6] It also created a new rotating office of President of the Presidency which would take effect in the event of Tito's death. The sitting vice president of the Presidency would succeed him in this case.
A collective presidency existed in Yugoslavia since amendments to the 1963 Constitution in 1971. [1] In 1974 a new Constitution was adopted which reaffirmed the collective federal presidency consisting of representatives of the six republics, the two autonomous provinces within Serbia and (until 1988) the President of the League of Communists.
The mandate of the Presidency lasted five years so the nine-member Presidency was elected in total four times – in 1974, 1979, 1984 and 1989. Until 1980 most of powers of the Presidency (and control over the country in general) were in fact exercised by Josip Broz Tito, who was president of the republic for life.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia: 1: Cvijetin Mijatović: 1913–1993 15 May 1974 15 May 1984 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: President of the Presidency: 15 May 1980 – 15 May 1981. 2: Branko Mikulić: 1928–1994 15 May 1984 15 May 1986 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: Left the Presidency to accept role of President of the Federal ...
August 1: National Assembly reconvened, with representatives of the Peasant-Democrat Coalition boycotting it. August 8: Stjepan Radić died from wounds suffered in the attack in the assembly chambers. August 12: Funeral of Stjepan Radić. August 13: Vladko Maček elected president of Croatian Peasant Party.
‘It certainly doesn’t seem like a gesture you would make at a solemn ceremony,’ one critic said of the thumbs-up
Date Event 11 March: 1981 protests in Kosovo: Student protest starts at the University of Pristina.: 1 April: Between 5,000 and 25,000 demonstrators of Albanian nationality call for SAP Kosovo to become a constituent republic inside Yugoslavia, as opposed to an autonomous province of Serbia.