Troubles with regionalism

Constitutional programme of Demokratska stranka Srbije (Democratic Party of Serbia) represents a project of federalization of Serbia under the mask of regionalism. The key constitutional solutions were defined appropriately to the federal organization: participation of regions in legislative authority at the state level, with their exclusive representation in the upper house, the equality of the houses and the exclusive domain of the house of regions; a wide range of activities in the original and exclusive authority of the regions with the complete financial autonomy; inexistence of supervision for purposefulness and only court evaluation of constitutionality and legality of work of regional organs. The realization of such a radical and far-reaching constitutional restructuring of the state, like changing a unitarian state into a federation, is proposed while a significant part of the state territory is under foreign occupation and whose destiny is quite uncertain. The idea to create larger territorial units in the remaining part which would acquire distinction by an octroyed constitution, by a decree from the top, is completely unfounded and arbitrary. As if Serbia today were not already too small to be further divided by the invented federal divisions, and too weak to be further weakened by artificial regional divisions. This wrong idea of constitutional restructuring, which would only plant the seed for new divisions and discords, represents an irresponsible playing with the state in a deadly experiment which would actually mean its disintegration