Yugoslavia Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Type: Communist state, federal republic in form

Capital: Belgrade

Political subdivisions: six republics with two autonomous provinces (within the Republic of Serbia)

Legal system: mixture of civil law system and Communist legal theory; constitution adopted 1974; legal education at several law schools; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

National holiday: Proclamation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 29 November

Branches: bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly—Federal Chamber, Chamber of Republics and Provinces); executive includes cabinet (Federal Executive Council) and the federal administration; judiciary; the State Presidency is a collective, rotating policymaking body composed of a representative from each republic and province, Radovan Vlajkovic presides as President of the Republic until May 1986, when he will be replaced by the representative from Kosovo Province, Sinan Hasani

Government leader. Milka PLANINC, President of the Federal Executive Council (since 1982); nonrenewable four-year term expires May 1986

Suffrage: universal over age 18

Elections: Federal Assembly elected every four years by a complicated, indirect system of voting

Political parties and leaders: League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) only; leaders are 23 members of party Presidium selected proportionally from republics, provinces, and Yugoslav People’s Army, with the president rotating on an annual basis and the secretary rotating every two years; current president is Vidoje Zarkovic, a Montenegrin (until June 1986); Party Congress scheduled for June 1986, to elect new Central Committee

Communists: 2,167,860 party members (December 1985)

Other political or pressure groups: Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SA WPY), the major mass front organization; Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia (CTUY), League of Socialist louth of Yugoslavia Federation of Veterans Associations of Yugoslavia (SUBNOR)

Member of: ASSIMER, CEM A (observer but participates in certain commissions), FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDB—Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, INTERPOL, IPU, ITC, ITU, NAM, OECD (participant in some activities), UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

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NOTE: The information regarding Yugoslavia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Yugoslavia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Yugoslavia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.