ЗЕМЉОРАДНИЧКА ЛЕВИЦА ДРАГОЉУБА ЈОВАНОВИЋА И ПИТАЊЕ ДРЖАВНОГ ПРЕУРЕЂЕЊА КРАЉЕВИНЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ
FARMERS’ LEFT OF DRAGOLJUB JOVANOVIC AND THE ISSUE OF STATE REFORM OF THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: The Farmers’ Left appears in the first years of the monarch dictator ship (in pre-war Yugoslavia) as a political group of independent views and ideas. While forming a conception of creating a powerful peasant movement among the Serbs, which, as was the case - with the Croatian Peasant Party, shall advocate Serbian national interests and act as an equal partner to that Party in the negotiations for settling the national question, its leaders have quite early incorporated into the foundations of their political program the national and state-legal component. Since they wanted to be partners with the leadership of the Croatian Peasant Party, they also wanted to be such an ally in the conflict over the state reform. As a result of these endeavours the concept emerged of the state order of the movement which amounted to particular, although not entirely defined, attempt of settlement of national and traditional specificities of the historical provinces within federalist and autonomist frameworks. The basic charateristics of such a concept, which is otherwise expressed in the program documents, which does not permit clearer legal-theoretical specyfying of the wanted form of state order, are the following: on the one hand, in spite of all essential federalist characteristics, the representation of particular units as such within the framework of the central legislative body is not ensured, and, on the other hand, the autonomy of various degrees is envisaged, both within the framework of individual countries, and in the form of specific units. However, territorial delimitation of the regional unit of Croatia (banovina) under the Cvetković—Maček agreement, followed by further Croatian territorial claims, provoked departure by the leaders of the Farmers' Left from the attitude of preserving of entirety of historical provinces; they have also abandoned the idea that some of them may be formed as separate units, outside the framework of the three national states, namely Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian.

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