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Vojvodina Assembly Adopted Statute Draft
Belgrade | 09 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
The Vojvodina assembly adopted on Saturday changes to a draft law that once passed will give the province greater autonomy within Serbia.
Some 84 of the Vojvodina members of parliament voted for the changes, whereas 20 of them voted against, and one abstained. Both the ruling Vojvodina League of Social Democrats and the Forward Serbia MP group did not take part in the vote.
The changes refer to several points included in the proposed Statute, which had passed in the Vojvodina assembly October last year, as they were no longer mentioned in the proposed draft law that was adopted by the Serbian government last Wednesday.
The Vojvodina Assembly's Committee for Regulation is supposed to draw up the final version of the statute proposal before sending it to the Serbian Parliament for approval.
According to the announcement of the Serbian Parliamentary Spokesperson Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, the current session of the parliament could be interrupted in order to start a new one on which the proposal of the statute and the draft would be discussed.
Dejanovic added that the statute and the law on the transfer of jurisdiction could be adopted later this month.
Vojvodina Executive Council President Bojan Pajtic expects that the Vojvodina statute and the law for transferring authorities will receive strong support from Serbian parliament.
“With this, officials representing a vast majority of Vojvodina citizens, have chosen to further the process of decentralisation and the regionalisation of society,” Tanjug news agency quoted Pajtic as saying. He added that this process is needed to speed up economic development, and to create a faster, cheaper and more effective administration not only in Vojvodina, but in the whole country.
For more information, please see: Serbs Reach Deal over Northern Province’s Autonomy
