TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENTS
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https://doi.org/10.63177/zrpfpr.022025.01Keywords:
transitional government, technocrats, constitution, executive branch.Abstract
In the Republic of Serbia, during the protests (2024/25) after the death of 16 citizens in Novi Sаd, the idea of forming a transitional government emerged as a temporary body that would, in addition to other executive branch tasks, prioritize the legality of the election process for MPs. Proposed by opposition parties, the idea of a transitional government was not understood by the ruling party, nor did the students, as the bearers of the protest, show any favor for such a body.
A transitional government is usually a temporary government with a certain number of experts (sometimes all of them) who are usually called technocrats, and have enough expertise to help overcome an economic or, in general, political crisis. Serbia had, in the post-October 5 times (2000), mostly positive experience with a short-term transitional government.
As examples of different types of transitional governments, in addition to the Serbian one, the transitional governments of North Macedonia, Montenegro and Italy will be described in basic outlines.
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