The Pursuit of Slovene Parliamentarism in the First Yugoslavia by Oblast Assemblies of Ljubljana and Maribor and by the Drava Province Provincial Council

Abstract

Analyzed are the efforts of both elected Slovene oblast/provincial assemblies (1927-1929) and of the appointed Provincial Council of the Drava Province (1930-1941) to attain wider parliamentary competences and work methods, and thus realize their primary goal of ensuring the economic, social, educational, and cultural development of Slovenia. The only Slovene representative bodies during the period of the First Yugoslavia were more successful in implementing autonomous tendencies during the oblast era rather than in the Provincial Council of the Drava Province in the 1930s. However, the Council managed to radicalize its efforts in 1940, demanding the establishment of the autonomous province of Slovenia with its own provincial assembly and parliamentary competences.