President of the League of Communists of Vojvodina

The president was the leader of the League of Communists of Vojvodina (LCV), the ruling party of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (SAPV) of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The LCV was the provincial organisation of the League of Communists of Serbia (LCS) in Vojvodina. Party rules stipulated that the LCV Central Committee elected the president. Moreover, the Central Committee was empowered to remove the president. The president served ex officio as a member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) and of the SAPV Presidency. To be eligible to serve, the president had to be a member of the LCV Executive Committee of the LCV Provincial Committee.

The office traces its lineage back to the office of "Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina", established sometime in 1919. As a provincial committee, the Vojvodina communists had no distinct rights and were under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Central Committee. The LCY 6th Congress on 2–7 November 1952, renamed the party League of Communists, and the Vojvodina branch followed suit and changed its name to League of Communists of Vojvodina. On 4 October 1966, the 5th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the LCY 8th Congress abolished the office of General Secretary at the national level and replaced with the office of President. The LSC Central Committee convened a meeting in 1966 that abolished the office of secretary and established the "President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina". The reforms passed by the LCY Central Committee plenum strengthened the powers of the provincial branches of Kosovo and Vojvodina and gave more powers to the LCV party leader. In 1981, the LCV introduced another set of reforms that abolished the existing office and replaced it with the "President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Vojvodina". This office was retained until 17 July 1990, when the League of Communists of Serbia changed its name to the "Socialist Party of Serbia".

Office history Title Established Abolished Established by Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina 20 April 1919 May 1945 1st Congress of the Socialist Labour Party of Yugoslavia (Communists) Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for VojvodinaSerbian: Секретар Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину May 1945 1966 ? President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for VojvodinaSerbian: Председник Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину 1966 28 April 1981 ? Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the League of Communists of Serbia President of the Presidency of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for VojvodinaSerbian: Председник Председништва Покрајинског комитета Савеза комуниста Србије за Војводину 28 April 1981 17 July 1990 ? Session of the Provincial Committee of the 16th Conference of the League of Communists of Vojvodina

Officeholders CPY Provincial Committee (1919–1945) +Secretaries of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosovo Name Took office Left office Term of office Before 1936 1936 or before 4th(1935–1938) 1906 1923 1982 1936 1936 4th(1935–1938) 1908 ? ? 1938 4 November 1942 5th–6th(1938–1945) 1902 1927 1942 January 1943 12 May 1945 6th–7th(1940–1945) 1906 1923 1982

LCS Provincial Committee (1945–1990) +Presidents of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia for Vojvodina Name Took office Left office Term of office 1 12 May 1945 November 1946 7th(1945–1951) 1906 1923 1982 2 November 1946 May 1951 7th–8th(1945–1951) 1918 1939 1992 3 May 1951 4 November 1966 9th–13th(1951–1968) 1919 1939 1981 4 4 November 1966 21 March 1969 13th–14th(1965–1974) 1922 1942 2014 5 21 March 1969 18 December 1972 14th(1968–1974) 1936 1957 Alive 6 24 December 1972 28 April 1981 14th–16th(1968–1982) 1921 1941 2002 7 28 April 1981 28 April 1982 16th(1978–1982) 1929 1946 2017 8 28 April 1982 28 April 1983 17th(1982–1986) 1925 1948 2013 9 28 April 1983 28 April 1984 17th(1982–1986) 1925 1943 1997 10 28 April 1984 24 April 1985 17th(1982–1986) 1929 1946 2017 11 24 April 1985 25 April 1988 17th–18th(1986–1989) 1928 1945 2014 12 25 April 1988 6 October 1988 18th(1986–1989) 1941 1960 2020 13 14 November 1988 20 January 1989 18th(1986–1989) 1946 ? 2023 14 20 January 1989 17 July 1990 15th(1989–1990) 1942 1960 2025

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