ПОЛИТИЧКА ОДГОВОРНОСТ ПРЕДСЕДНИКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ
POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Summary/Abstract: The concept and definition of executive power, the regulation of its organization and relations toward other repositories of supreme power are in the focus of the theory of constitutional law. Moreover, they are present in the practice of elaboration of the highest legal and political document of a state. These problems are still present as a consequence of potential fear from an absolute executive power, as well as of the danger of system deformations caused by its personalization and turning into an unlimited, personal and arbitrary government. The status of a republic president as a repository of executive power in a bicephalic or monocephalic executive may be regarded from various aspects. One of particularly significant aspects, both constitution-wise and politically, is the political responsibility as a form of legal responsibility. Being that it is directly reflected on the duration, or on the early discontinuation of the presidential term of office, the legal and political responsibility of a president in different organizational forms of power is discussed in the paper. However, the problem of the political responsibility of a republic head may not be regarded as isolated from other non-legal forms of political influence on the function of a head of state. They are present in every modern political system and they inevitably impact the constitutional and legal scheme of the organization of authority. Taking into consideration relatively short parliamentary experience of the Republic of Serbia and certain specific constitutional solutions, a necessity has emerged for a comparative study of enactment, as well as for a discussion of fundamental ideas of the middle-class theory concerning the distribution of power, or the position of a head of state in a parliamentary system of power from the aspect of his political responsibility.

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