Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative Udruženje za jugoslovensku demokratsku inicijativu Удружење за Југословенску демократску иницијативу | |
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| Founded | 2 February 1989 (1989-02-02) |
| Dissolved | 1992 |
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| Political position | Big tent |
TheAssociation for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (Serbo-Croatian:Udruženje za jugoslovensku/jugoslavensku demokratsku inicijativu, UJDI) was apolitical party inSFR Yugoslavia. It is widely considered the first independent all-Yugoslav political movement.[1]
UJDI's basic tenets were the transformation of the state through democratization, freedom of thought and political activity, including free multi-party elections, as well as the support for Yugoslavia as a united federal state, as opposed to centralism and separatism.[1]
In January 1989, UJDI's co-founderPredrag Matvejević described its goal as "making theSocialist Alliance [of Working People of Yugoslavia] into a kind of an alternative party, a socialist one, in which alternative solutions and alternative cadres could arise, as well as the rectification of everything about theLeague of Communists [of Yugoslavia] that was not working and was not good".[2]
UJDI was founded on February 2, 1989, inZagreb,[3] by a group of left-leaning intellectuals, notably its first president wasBranko Horvat, the second president wasNebojša Popov, its director wasŽarko Puhovski and the members includedPredrag Matvejević,Abdulah Sidran,Bogdan Bogdanović,Milan Kangrga,Lev Kreft,Shkëlzen Maliqi,Vesna Pešić,Koča Popović,Milorad Pupovac,Karlo Štajner,Ljubiša Ristić,Božidar Gajo Sekulić,Rudi Supek,Ljubomir Tadić,Dubravka Ugrešić,Tibor Várady,Predrag Vranicki,Nenad Zakošek andJug Grizelj.[3]
ASlovenian affiliate of the party was also founded under the leadership of the sociologistRastko Močnik,[4] but it ceased functioning even before the 1990 multi-party elections.
In the1990 Serbian parliamentary election, it obtained 0.5% and won 1 seat byTibor Várady.
In the1990 Serbian presidential election,Ivan Đurić ran as the common candidate of UJDI and theUnion of Reform Forces and won 5.5% of the vote, finishing in the third place.
In 1992, after thebreakup of Yugoslavia, its Serbian branch merged into theCivil Alliance of Serbia.
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