Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative
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Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative Udruženje za jugoslovensku demokratsku inicijativu Удружење за Југословенску демократску иницијативу | |
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Founded | 2 February 1989 |
Dissolved | 1992 |
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Political position | Big tent |
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The Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (Serbo-Croatian: Udruženje za jugoslovensku/jugoslavensku demokratsku inicijativu, UJDI) was a political party in SFR Yugoslavia. It is widely considered the first independent all-Yugoslav political movement.[1]
UJDI's basic tenets were the transformation of the state through democratization, freedom of thought and political activity, including free multi-party elections, as well as the support for Yugoslavia as a united federal state, as opposed to centralism and separatism.[1]
History[]
In January 1989, UJDI's co-founder Predrag Matvejević described its goal as "making the Socialist Alliance [of Working People of Yugoslavia] into a kind of an alternative party, a socialist one, in which alternative solutions and alternative cadres could arise, as well as the rectification of everything about the League of Communists [of Yugoslavia] that was not working and was not good".[2]
UJDI was founded on February 2, 1989, in Zagreb,[3] by a group of left-leaning intellectuals, notably its first president was Branko Horvat, the second president was , its director was Žarko Puhovski and the members included Predrag Matvejević, Abdulah Sidran, Bogdan Bogdanović, Milan Kangrga, Lev Kreft, Shkëlzen Maliqi, Vesna Pešić, Koča Popović, Milorad Pupovac, Karlo Štajner, , , Rudi Supek, Ljubomir Tadić, Dubravka Ugrešić, Tibor Várady, Predrag Vranicki, and .[3]
A Slovenian affiliate of the party was also founded under the leadership of the sociologist Rastko Močnik,[4] but it ceased functioning even before the 1990 multi-party elections.
In the 1990 Serbian parliamentary election, it obtained 0.5% and won 1 seat by Tibor Várady.
In the , Ivan Đurić ran as the common candidate of UJDI and the Union of Reform Forces and won 5.5% of the vote, finishing in the third place.
In 1992, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, its Serbian branch merged into the Civil Alliance of Serbia.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Sasso 2014, p. 43.
- ^ Orlić 2011, pp. 100–101.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Orlić 2011, p. 101.
- ^ Božo Repe, Slovenci v osemdesetih letih, (Ljubljana 2001), 51.
Bibliography[]
- Orlić, Mila (2011). "Od postkomunizma do postjugoslavenstva. Udruženje za jugoslavensku demokratsku inicijativu" [From post-communism to post-Yugoslavism. Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative] (PDF). Politička misao (in Croatian). Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. 48 (4): 98–112. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- Sasso, Alfredo (2014). "The 'Bosnian Silence'? Regime Decline and Civic Alternatives in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1989-1990)" (PDF). Časopis za povijest Zapadne Hrvatske. 9: 27–50. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- Political parties in Yugoslavia
- 1989 establishments in Yugoslavia
- 1992 disestablishments
- Left-wing parties