Vojvodina Autonomist Movement
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
No issues specified. Please specify issues, or remove this template. |
Vojvodina Autonomist Movement is a political movement in the Serbian province of Vojvodina that advocating more autonomy for Vojvodina within Serbia.
History
The idea was introduced during the 1990s and was more popular during the Yugoslav Wars when one part of the local population wasn't satisfied with the regime of Slobodan Milošević. During this time period, Milošević's regime abolished much of the aspects of Vojvodina's autonomy, which province enjoyed during the time of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Political parties
There are (or were) several political parties or party coalitions that advocating (or advocated) more autonomy for Vojvodina. Most popular of them is the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina led by Nenad Čanak. Other parties are: Vojvodina Coalition, Vojvodina Coalition, Clean Hands of Vojvodina, Union of Socialists of Vojvodina, Vojvodina parties, Vojvodina's Party, Vojvodinian Movement, etc. These parties are mostly led and supported by local Vojvodinian Serb population. There are also several political parties of local ethnic minorities, some of which, aside from supporting rights of ethnic minorities, are also supporting idea of more autonomy for Vojvodina.
Political proposals
There are various views among autonomist political parties about desired level of autonomy of Vojvodina. Some of the proposals are advocating (or advocated) returning to level of autonomy as it was in 1974, while other proposals are supporting idea of more autonomy than in 1990s, but somewhat less than in 1974.
One of the proposals is the proposal of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, which advocated the transformation of Serbia into the "democratic federal state" with federal units with larger or lower levels of autonomy. One of the federal units of federal Serbia, according to the proposal, would be the Republic of Vojvodina (Template:Lang-sr; Template:Lang-hu; Template:Lang-sk; Template:Lang-hr; Template:Lang-ro; Rusyn: Република Войводина). Besides Vojvodina, other federal units would be Šumadija, South-Eastern Serbia, city of Belgrade, Sandžak and Kosovo. According to the League, this political solution would "stabilize Serbia as a state and would prevent any separatist tendencies on the territory of Serbia".