Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia | |
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.svg) 1st Cabinet ofDemocratic Federal Yugoslavia | |
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| Date formed | 7 March 1945 (1945-03-07) |
| Date dissolved | 29 November 1945 (1945-11-29) |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | King Peter II |
| Head of government | Josip Broz Tito |
| Status in legislature | Provisional Government |
| History | |
| Predecessor |  Government-in-exile NKOJ |
| Successor | Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia |
TheProvisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian:Privremena vlada Demokratske Federativne Jugoslavije /Привремена влада Демократске Федеративне Југославије) wasDemocratic Federal Yugoslavia'stemporary national government formed through the merger of theYugoslav government-in-exile and theNational Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (NKOJ). It existed from 7 March to 11 November 1945. It then became theFederal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in late 1945, which in turn became theSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1992.
"At the moment these are our efforts are focused in one direction, and that is:
Before the temporary government was formed, there were several meetings betweenTito andIvan Šubašić, the pre-warBan of Croatia andPrime Minister of Yugoslavia in London during the Second World War.
The international situation has affected Tito to enter politics and compromise to replace radicalism, the pressure of Great Britain and its international protector USSR, "real politics" and to adopt a memorandum of the British government, which was transmitted to him byWinston Churchill of August 1944. To the country will not impose communism, to keep the Communist Party in the conspiracy, and to express the communist program through the National Front of Yugoslavia.
After theTreaty of Vis or theTito–Šubašić Agreement, Tito and Šubašić met inVršac on 20 October 1944. Tito's stay in theSoviet Union during theMoscow Conference betweenJoseph Stalin andWinston Churchill opened the door for other agreements between representatives of the National Committee and the Royal Government. The agreement was concluded on 1 November 1944 in Belgrade and is known as theBelgrade Agreement.
To new contacts occurred in December 1944, when the amendment was made to the Belgrade Agreement, certain guarantees for the political parties, and the ratification of legislationAVNOJ by the future Constituent Assembly. The Belgrade Agreement has been dissatisfied with King Peter II, whose function under the agreement of Tito–Šubašić in 1944. A Regency Council performed by a panel composed of three members.
However, after theYalta Conference on 16 February 1945, Ivan Šubašić's government arrived in Belgrade. After much negotiation and persuasion, King Peter II finally agreed to power transition. Under the agreement, three days later, the royal government and the NKOJ resigned. The new government was formed on 7 March 1945, and on 9 March adopted a Declaration. That night Tito read it in a broadcast over Radio Belgrade.
Acting asHead of state on 7 March 1945,King Peter II created hisRegency Council to which he appointed constitutional lawyersSrđan Budisavljević,Ante Mandić, andDušan Sernec [sl]. In doing so, the King empowered his Council to form a common temporary government with theNational Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (NKOJ) and acceptJosip Broz Tito's nomination as Prime Minister of the first normal government of post-war Yugoslavia. As authorized by the King, the Council has thus accepted the Tito's nomination on 29 November 1945, whenFederal People's Republic of Yugoslavia or Second Yugoslavia was officially declared. By this unconditional transfer of powers, Peter II hasabdicated to Tito.[1] This date, when the second Yugoslavia was born under international law, had since been marked as Yugoslavia's national holidayDay of the Republic, however following the communists' switch toauthoritarianism, this holiday officially marked the 1943 Session of AVNOJ that coincidentally fell on the same day of the year.[2]
Milan Grol the Deputy Prime Minister resigned on 8 August 1945, on the grounds that the new government did not respect the principle of democracy and freedom of speech. After the "burning house" editorial ofDemocracy was published in the towns of Yugoslavia, there was a disagreement between Šubašić and a representative of theUnitary National Liberation Front. On the same day,Juraj Šutej, Minister without portfolio, resigned.Ivan Šubašić, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, resigned on 8 October 1945, saying there was no free democratic government but a communist dictatorship in the country.
| Minister | Portfolio | Term | Party | Notes | ||
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| Josip Broz Tito | Prime Minister Minister of Defence | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously head of theNKOJ. | |
 | Milan Grol | Deputy Prime Minister | 7 March – 24 August 1945 | Democratic Party | Previously member of thegovernment-in-exile. Resigned on 18 August 1945 | |
.jpg) | Edvard Kardelj | Deputy Prime Minister | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
 | Ivan Šubašić | Minister of Foreign Affairs | 7 March – 8 October 1945 | Croatian Peasant Party | Previously head of the government-in-exile. Resigned on 8 October 1945 | |
 | Josip Smodlaka | Minister without Portfolio | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Juraj Šutej | Minister without Portfolio | 7 March 1945 – | Croatian Peasant Party | Previously member of thegovernment-in-exile. Resigned on 18 August 1945 | |
 | Sreten Žujović | Minister of Finances | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
 | Drago Marušič | Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone | 7 March 1945 – | Slovene People's Party | previously member of thegovernment-in-exile. | |
 | Frane Frol | Minister of Justice | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
.jpg) | Vlada Zečević | Minister of Internal Affairs | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
 | Todor Vujasinović | Minister of Transport | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
 | Andrija Hebrang | Minister of Industry | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Nikola Petrović | Minister of Trade and Supply | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Vladislav S. Ribnikar | Minister of Education | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Sava Kosanović | Minister of Information | 7 March 1945 – | previously member of thegovernment-in-exile. | ||
| Zlatan Sremec | Minister of Public Health | 7 March 1945 – | Previously member of theNKOJ. | ||
 | Bane Andreev | Minister of Mining | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
| Vaso Čubrilović | Minister of Agriculture | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
| Sulejman Filipović | Minister of Forestry | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Anton Kržišnik | Minister of Social Affairs | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Sreten Vukosavljević | Minister of Colonization | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
| Rade Pribićević | Minister of Construction | 7 March – 24 April 1945 | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
| Stevan Zečević | 24 April 1945 – | ||||
| Jaša Prodanović | Minister for Serbia | 7 March – 9 April 1945 | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
 | Pavle Gregorić | Minister for Croatia | 7 March – 14 April 1945 | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
 | Rodoljub Čolaković | Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
 | Milovan Đilas | Minister for Montenegro | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | ||
 | Emanuel Čučkov | Minister for Macedonia | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
 | Edvard Kocbek | Minister for Slovenia | 7 March 1945 – | Unitary National Liberation Front | Previously member of theNKOJ. | |
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