This article lists the members of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, the
collective
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head of state
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He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads
* He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English
* He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana)
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being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...
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 ...
from 1971 until the country's
dissolution in 1991/92.
Formed by the 1971 amendments to the
1963 Yugoslav Constitution
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, the
Presidency of Yugoslavia
The Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, , , was the collective head of state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It was established in 1971 according to amendments to the 1963 Yugoslav Constitution, 1963 Co ...
originally had 23 members – three from each
republic
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, two from each
and
President of the Republic
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* by direct universal s ...
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito ( ; , ), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 unti ...
. The
1974 Yugoslav Constitution
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With 406 original articles, the 1974 constitution was one of the longest constitutio ...
reorganized the Presidency, reducing it to 9 members – one from each republic and autonomous province and, until 1988,
leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
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''ex officio''. The 1974 Constitution provided for the office of
President of the Presidency, but only coming into effect with the disestablishment of the office of President of the Republic. A separate article affirmed Josip Broz Tito with an
unlimited mandate which ensured the new President of the Presidency would not come into effect until after
his death, which occurred on 4 May 1980.
List
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina members
SR Croatia members
SR Serbia members
SR Slovenia members
SR Macedonia members
SR Montenegro members
SAP Vojvodina members
SAP Kosovo members
Presidents of the LCY (''ex officio'')
See also
*
President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
The office of the president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, , existed from the Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito, death of the President of the Republic Josip Broz Tito on 4 M ...
*
Vice President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, List of
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Politics of Yugoslavia
Presidency
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