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Kingdom Of Yugoslavia Parliamentary Election, 1938
Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia on 11 December 1938. The result was a victory for the governing Yugoslav Radical Union, which won 306 of the 373 seats in National Assembly. These would be the last elections held in Yugoslavia before World War II. By the time of the first postwar elections, in 1945, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was rapidly consolidating power, and the non-Communist opposition boycotted the vote after claiming to have been targeted with severe intimidation."Elections In Yugoslavia", ''The Times'', 9 November 1945 As a result, the 1938 elections would be the last multi-party elections held in Yugoslavia until the Communists gave up their monopoly of power in 1990. Coalitions The Yugoslav Radical Union (JRZ, Jereza) led by PM Milan Stojadinović, formed a right-wing to far-right alliance with: * Yugoslav National Party led by Bogoljub Jevtić, * Yugoslav Muslim Organization led by Mehmed Spaho, * Slovene People's Party led by Anton Korošec an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Stojadinović
Milan Stojadinović ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Стојадиновић; 4 August 1888 – 26 October 1961) was a Serbs, Serbian and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician and economist who was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939. He also was Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia), Foreign Minister from 1935 to 1939 and as Ministry of Finance (Yugoslavia), Finance Minister three times (1922–1924, 1924–1926, 1934–1935). Early life Milan Stojadinović was born on 4 August 1888 in the Serbian town of Čačak. His father, Mihailo, was a municipal judge who relocated to Belgrade in 1904. It was here that the young Stojadinović finished his secondary education and became a sympathizer of the Serbian Social Democratic Party (Kingdom of Serbia), Serbian Social Democratic Party (SSDP). Later, he came to believe that the liberation of ethnic Serbs who lived in the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empires was more important than bridging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav National Party
The Yugoslav National Party (, Југославенска национална странка, JNS; ), established as Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy (; ), was the sole-ruling party of Yugoslavia during the period of royal authoritarian dictatorship from 1929 to 1931. History Dictatorship On 6 January 1929, the king dissolved the Parliament and abolished the constitution, and banning all political parties. This became known as the 6 January Dictatorship. In 1931, a new constitution was put into place, which provided for limited democracy. However, most of the political power remained in the hands of the King and the government, appointed by him. 1930s In May 1932, the Yugoslav Radical Peasants' Democracy was established to support Alexander's government, under the leadership of Petar Živković. It was formed mostly by dissident members of the Democratic Party and the People's Radical Party (NRS), as well as the Slovenian section of the Independent Democratic Party (SDS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Jovanović Pižon
Jovan Jovanović Pižon (; 3 September 1869 – 20 June 1939) was a Serbian diplomat, politician and writer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia from 18 June 1912 to 27 August 1912. Biography He was born in Belgrade in 1869, where he finished elementary school and high school, as well as law at the Great School in 1891. He then continued his law studies at the University of Paris, where he acquired a degree. Upon his return in May 1892, he was appointed clerk in the Belgrade Town Court. Politika, Belgrade, 21 June 1939 He behaved elegantly, with a high collar and in a suit tailored in Parisian fashion. Because of he got the nickname Pižon, which means pigeon in French. Between 1899 and 1903 he was a clerk to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Constantinople, a clerk of the Ministry of Finance (1901-1903) and secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was elected associate professor of the Great School in 1900. During 1903–1904, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrarian Party (Yugoslavia)
The Agrarian Party ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Земљорадничка странка, Zemljoradnička stranka) was an agrarian political party within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The party was founded in 1919, as the Alliance of Agrarians. It initially operated throughout the state, before merging in Croatian majority areas with the Croatian Peasant Party. A splinter party called the National Peasant Party of Dragoljub Jovanović later emerged. The Agrarians officially dissolved in 1945 after the proclamation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country .... Literature * Branislav Gligorijević, ''Zemljoradnička stranka'', ''Istorija 20. veka'', 1995, vol. 13, br. 2, str. 25–36. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubomir Davidović
Ljubomir Davidović (24 December 1863 – 19 February 1940) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as prime minister (1919–1920 and 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia). Biography Davidović was born in a village in the Kosmaj Oblast. He graduated from the science and mathematics department of the College of Arts and Sciences of the Velika škola in Belgrade. In 1901, he became a member of the Serbian Parliament and played a part in founding the Independent Radical Party, whose leader he eventually became in 1912. He was Minister of Education in 1904; President of the Municipality of Belgrade; and President of the National Assembly in 1909. Between 1914 and 1917, he was minister of education in the cabinet under Nikola Pašić. The next year, he became the leader of another newly founded party, the Democratic Party. As such, he was prime minister in the coalition of Democrats and Socialists between 1919 and 1920. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Yugoslavia)
The Yugoslav Democratic Party, ''State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats'' and Democratic Party, also known as the Democratic Union was the name of a series of liberal political parties that existed in succession in the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). History Yugoslav Democratic Party The Yugoslav Democratic Party () was a Slovenian liberal political party, founded in June 1918 from the merge of all three Slovene national liberal parties that had been formed since the 1890s in the Slovene-speaking parts of Austria-Hungary: the National Progressive Party in Carniola, the National Party in Styria, and the National Progressive Party in Gorizia and Gradisca. Prominent members included Ivan Tavčar, Ivan Hribar, Albert Kramar, Gregor Žerjav, and Milko Brezigar. State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats In the Spring of 1919, in Sarajevo, the State Party of Serbian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srđan Budisavljević
Srđan Budisavljević (8 December 1883 – 20 February 1968) was a politician and lawyer born in Požega. Budisavljević studied law in Zagreb and Berlin before being elected to the Sabor of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in 1908 as a representative of the Croat-Serb Coalition led by Frano Supilo and Svetozar Pribičević. Budisavljević was appointed the interior minister of the new the government of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1918, Budisavljević was among founders and the secretary of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs – a body composed of political representatives of the South Slavs living in Austria-Hungary tasked with achieving independence of South Slavic lands from the empire. In the same year he launched the ''Glas Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba'' ("Voice of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs") journal. Budisavljević was elected to the Parliament of Yugoslavia on the Democratic Party ticket in 1920 and 1923 before switching his allegiance to Pribičević-led Indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Democratic Party (Yugoslavia)
The Independent Democratic Party ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Samostalna demokratska stranka, Самостална демократска странка; , SDS) was a social liberal political party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was established by Svetozar Pribićević as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party (Yugoslavia), Democratic Party in 1924. It was formed by three different groups: by far the largest group were the Serbs from the areas of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, that is Croatian Serbs, Croatian, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian and Serbs in Vojvodina, Vojvodina Serbs, with the prevalence of the first. The second most influential group were Yugoslav Democratic Party, Slovene centralist liberals. The third group was composed by Croats, Croat liberals, mostly from Dalmatia and Zagreb. In the first three years of its existence, the party supported a strong central Yugoslav government, fiercely opposing the federalism of the Croat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aca Stanojević
Aleksa "Aca" Stanojević (1852 – 1947) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician, one of the founders and leaders of the People's Radical Party. Stanojević was a member of the People's Radical Party since its founding in 1881. He was long-term Party MP, he also served as Speaker of the National Assembly of the Principality and later Kingdom of Serbia for several terms. After the death of Nikola Pašić in 1926, he was elected chairman of the main committee and a new leader of the party. Although he was a loyalist to the Karađorđević dynasty, he opposed the establishment of the 6 January dictatorship in 1929 by King Alexander I. At the end of World War II, he joined the KPJ-lead People's Front of Yugoslavia The Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ), known before 1953 as the People's Front of Yugoslavia (NFJ), was the largest and most influential mass organization in SFR Yugoslavia from August 1945 through 1990. It succeeded the .... References {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Radical Party
The People's Radical Party (, abbr. NRS) was a populist political party in Serbia and later Yugoslavia. Led by Nikola Pašić for most of its existence, its ideological profile has significantly changed throughout its history, shifting from socialism and radicalism towards conservatism in the early 20th century. History The founding of the party was related to the circle of Serbian youth followers of Svetozar Marković and Nikola Pašić in Zurich. The leaders of this group proposed a political program in which they called for: *change of the constitution *freedom of the press and open politics *judicial independence *reform of the education system *enhanced local self-government The first main assembly of the People's Radical Party was in July 1882 in Kragujevac. The Radical's program, inspired by French Radicalism, was adopted, and Nikola Pašić was elected as the president of the central committee. The Radical Party had its own daily newspaper (''Samouprava'', "Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Korošec
Anton Korošec (, ; 12 May 1872 – 14 December 1940) was a Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator. Early life Korošec was born in Biserjane (then Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary, now part of Slovenia) and went to school in Ptuj and in Maribor. He studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1895. He completed his education with a doctorate in theology from the University of Graz in 1905. He was friends with Janez Evangelist Krek and adopted his political views. Political career In 1907, Korošec was elected to the Reichsrat as a member of the Slovenian People's Party, where, as president of the Yugoslav Club, he read out the May Declaration, which called for all South Slavs to be unified in one state unit within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Following the break-up of Austria-Hungary, the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, of which Korošec was the president, declared the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovene People's Party (historical)
The Slovene People's Party (, , Slovene abbreviation SLS) was a Slovenian political party in the 19th and 20th centuries, active in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Between 1907 and 1941, it was the largest and arguably the most influential political party in the Slovene Lands. It was dissolved by the Yugoslav Communist authorities in 1945, but continued to be active in exile until 1992, when it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats. The contemporary Slovene People's Party, founded in 1988, was named after it. From the establishment of the party to the collapse of Austria Hungary The Slovene People’s Party was founded under the name Catholic National Party (''Katoliška narodna stranka'') in 1892 in Ljubljana with the aim of working in the Carniola region. On 27 November 1905, the ruling body of the party adopted a motion changing the name to Slovene People’s Party. Under the influence of Ivan Šusteršič, Evgen Lampe and Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
