Day of adoption of the Constitution of Serbia (29/10)

October 29 in Serbia — important historical date — Day of adoption of the Constitution of Serbia.

On 30 September 2006, the People's Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, in an emergency meeting in the presence of the President and the Government, unanimously voted in favour of the draft of the new Constitution, which was adopted in a popular referendum held on 28 and 29 October 2006.

54.91% of all eligible citizens (3,645,517 people) took part in the referendum, of which 53.04% (3,521,724 people) voted for the adoption of the Constitution.

The new Constitution was officially proclaimed by the Serbian Parliament on November 8, 2006, thus replacing the previous Constitution of 1990. Previously, Constitutions in Serbia were adopted during the periods of the existence of the Principality of Serbia and the Kingdom of Serbia in 1835, 1838, 1869, 1888, 1901 and 1903, as well as during the existence of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (Socialist Republic of Serbia) in 1947, 1963 and 1974.

The preamble to the current Constitution of 2006 states that Kosovo and Metohija are constituent parts of the Republic of Serbia, but with the actual right of self-government, and in the first article of the Constitution — that Serbia is the state of the Serbian people and all citizens living in it.

According to the previous Constitution of the Republic of Serbia (1990—2006), the official language was Serbo-Croatian, and both Latin and Cyrillic were considered official alphabets. The new Constitution of 2006 returned the Serbian language and established that the only official alphabet was the Cyrillic alphabet.

Currently, neither October 28 nor October 29 have been declared public holidays, however, the event is of important historical significance for the Republic.

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