SRPSKE PARLAMENTARNE STRANKE U KRALJEVINI SHS 1918-1929
SERBIAN PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES IN THE KINGDOM SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES 1918–1929

Summary/Abstract: In the interwar period, the Assembly of the Kingdom was composed of professional politicians. Such structure was causing its inefficiency in solving economical and social issues. The Assembly was primarily serving as a forum for political clashes, and only occasionally as a law-making institution. Central topics of the parliamentary debates were corruption scandals. Activity of the political factors outside the parliament, staunch defense of policies of centralism and unitarism, as well as the lack of capacity to deal with basic social and economical issues led to the decline of reputation and importance of Assembly and of parlamentarism in the Kingdom of SCS, constituting a fertile ground for establishing of the personal regime of King Alexander I in the beginning of 1929. By that time, parliamentary parties were already so deteriorated, that the imposition of dictatorship on January 6 was liquidating them only officials, formalizing their ‘political death’.

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