Decades of Constitutional Delay

Constructing a Normative-political Framework for the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Abstract

Analysis of the four convocations of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina: the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth, questions the setting Pševorski that the peaceful, double change of the elite marks the end of the process of democratic consolidation and transition: after the change of the regime of Slobodan Milošević and after 16 years of political dominance of the Democratic Party (2000-2016), the double change of the elite in AP Vojvodina did not call into question the continuity - the continuity of the annulment campaign of all the values ​​on which the Vojvodina political community rests. The work of four convocations of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina in the period 2008-2024. year was analyzed through the process of passing key normative acts, and with the aim of familiarizing the general public with the normative history of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina, which is mostly the so-called "great" national political historiography remained marginalized and most often classified as second-rate political chronicles, an event history of lesser value that was rarely dealt with by researchers, both political scientists and sociologists and historians. In this period, the topics of autonomy, decentralization and regionalization disappear from the list of political priorities, which was consequently followed by numerous examples of political, economic and symbolic challenges to the legitimacy of institutions of provincial autonomy. Conflicting influences in the political field of the autonomy of Vojvodina will also confirm in the period 2008-2024, the rule confirmed many times until then: that it is difficult to formulate the smallest common container for opposing concepts that see the autonomy of Vojvodina either as a form of political territorial decentralization or as a political idea, a European project and a project future and modernity.