REPRESENTATION OF YOUTH IN LOCAL ASSEMBLIES IN SERBIA
Бобан Стојановић
Open publicationThis paper aims to reconstruct the history of attempts by Yugoslav integrationist political organizations – namely, the Yugoslav National Party, the Yugoslav People's Party, and the Yugoslav National Movement Zbor – to establish mutual cooperation and form the Yugoslav National Front coalition during the late 1930s. Their objective was to more effectively counter the informal process of federalizing the Yugoslav state initiated by the government of the Yugoslav Radical Union. The central focus of this study is the course of negotiations between these integrationist organizations, as well as the stance of Milan Stojadinović’s regime toward the idea of uniting supporters of national and state unitarism. A more detailed examination of the Yugoslav National Front concept would shed light on the background and context of several key political events – such as the Arnautović assassination attempt on Stojadinović and the Technical Union affair – that significantly influenced the political landscape of the first Yugoslav state.