Dissolution of parliament under the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006: Some open issues

Abstract

This article covers four parts. In the first part of the paper, they are explained in the most important paragraphs of the powers to dissolve the parliament in order to form the basic theoretical framework of this constitutional mechanism of termination of the mandate of the parliament before the expiry of the mandate of its members, with special reference to its legal regulations in the Republic of Serbia. In the following parts of the paper, based on the previously established theoretical frameworks of the mechanism of dissolution of the parliament, it was pointed out the legal nature of the dissolved parliament and its limitations, and then discussed some open issues relating to the dissolved parliament in the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006 in order to give our opinion on the reasons for the dissolution of the parliament and what are the ongoing and urgent tasks that the dissolved parliament performs, what should be more clearly defined in some future revision of the constitution and laws in order to avoid in practice different interpretations and misinterpretations.