The Saint Andrew's Day Assembly or the Andermas Assembly () was the name of a Serbian parliament which was in session from (

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) to 29 January 1859 in the Great Brewery in

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

Principality of Serbia The Principality of Serbia () was an autonomous, later sovereign state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation was negotiated first through an unwritten agre ...

.History of the Serbian Parliament (National Assembly of Serbia Official Website)
/ref> There were a total of 432 representatives who were appointed by the Prince and were not elected. After the

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, the nominal suzerain of the Principality of Serbia at the time, was forced by the

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to implement internal reforms, the then Prince of Serbia Alexander Karađorđević convened parliament due to pressure from domestic opposition. At the end of the 1850s, the monarch was very unpopular, which was exploited by two dominant political groups, the Liberals and the

Defenders of the Constitution The Defenders of the Constitution (, ''Ustavobranitelji'') was a political regime that achieved power in Serbia in 1842 by overthrowing young Prince Mihailo Obrenović. History Led by Toma Vučić Perišić and later Ilija Garašanin, Serbian ...

. At the session of the assembly, the groups proposed for Alexander to abdicate and to invite former Prince

Miloš Obrenović Miloš Obrenović (; ; 18 March 1780 or 1783 – 26 September 1860) born Miloš Teodorović (; ), also known as Miloš the Great () was the Prince of Serbia twice, from 1815 to 1839, and from 1858 to 1860. He was an eminent figure of the Firs ...

(who had previously ruled from 1817 to 1839) to assume the throne again.

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