Open AccessDEGOLISM, FRENCH V REPUBLIC AND SERBIAN CONSTITUTIONAL CHOISES
Author(s) -
SLOBODAN ZEČEVIĆ
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kultura polisa
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.51738/kpolisa2021.18.2r.1.02
Subject(s) - serbian , autocracy , constitution , the republic , political science , law , state (computer science) , politics , democracy , theology , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science
Can the political and doctrinal legacy of Charles De Gaulle be linked to Serbia? The answer is affirmative even far more than we think. Austrian and French experiences were used during the drafting of the Serbian constitution from 2006. Our constitutional text also established a kind of mixed system, in which the Prime Minister was the holder of executive power, while the President of the Republic was in charge of expressing the unity of the Republic of Serbia. It was a bad copy of the constitution of the French V Republic. The President of the Republic of Serbia was elected by the people in direct elections, but he was denied the competencies that this election requires. Even more serious consequences were left by the introduction of a proportional electoral system that produced weak and corrupt coalition governments whose composition was determined by reach poeple and foreign intelligence services. In order to avoid distortions of the electoral proportionality, ie to obtain a stable government, the introduction of autocratic measures of media supervision and control and state institutions followed.