Politics of Serbia

Serbia

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The politics of Serbia function within the framework of a parliamentary republic. The Prime minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly of Serbia. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.^{[citation needed]}

The term Serbian politics is sometimes uses to denote political powers outside Serbia, such as in the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity of Republika Srpska.

Executive

Executive power is exercised by the Prime minister, who heads the cabinet. The Prime minister is chosen by the National Assembly on the proposal of the President, who names the designate after consultations with all parliamentary leaders. Ministers of the cabinet are nominated by the Prime minister and confirmed by the National Assembly (parliament).

Legislature

Legislative power is exercised by the National Assembly, which is composed of 250 proportionally elected deputies. Serbia uses the multi-party system, with numerous political parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, this results in the formation of coalition governments.

Parliamentary groups	Seats	Parties	Seats
For a European Serbia	78	Democratic Party (DS)	64	Majority (129)
		League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV)	5
		Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDP)	4
		Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO)	4
		Democratic League of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV)	1
United Regions of Serbia	24	G17+	21
		Together for Šumadija (ZZS)	2
		Independent	1
SPS – JS	15	Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)	11
		United Serbia (JS)	3
		Movement of Veterans of Serbia (PVS)	1
United Pensioners of Serbia	5	Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS)	5
Independent	1	Christian Democratic Party of Serbia (DHSS)	1
Ethnic Minorities Group	7	Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM)	4
		Party of Democratic Action of Sanjak (SDA S)	1
		Bosniac Democratic Party of Sanjak (BDSS)	1
		Party for Democratic Action (PzDD)	1	Minority (121)
Serbian Radical Party	56	Serbian Radical Party (SRS)	56
Forward Serbia	22	Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)	21
		independent	1
Democratic Party of Serbia	20	Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS)	20
Liberal Democratic Party	12	Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)	11
		Social Democratic Union (SDU)	1
New Serbia	9	New Serbia (NS)	9
Independent	1	Democratic Left of the Roma (DLR)	1

Judiciary

Judicial power is organized by a system of courts which are independent from other branches of power^{[citation needed]}. The system includes: local courts, the Constitutional court and the Supreme court of cassation.

International Organizations

UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, BSEC, NATO Partnership for Peace, CEFTA, ICC, IMF, World Bank, Southeast European Cooperation Process, Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, Southeast European Cooperative Initiative, Central European Initiative

Serbia is also a potential candidate for EU membership and is expected to become a full candidate in December 2011. Serbia is also a candidate for the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is expected to join by 2013.

See also

• List of political parties in Serbia
• List of Ambassadors from Serbia