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===Vidovdan Constitution===
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As soon as talks about the constitution of the new state began, two diametrically opposite sides, Serbian and Croatian, were established. Both Pašić and Prince-regent Alexander wanted a unitary state but for different reasons. Pašić considered that the Serbs could be outvoted in such a state and that an unconsolidated and heterogeneous entity would fall apart if it was a federal one, while the prince-regent simply didn't like to share power with others, which was shown 8 years later when he conducted a coup d'état.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
[[Stjepan Radić]], a leading Croatian politician for a joint Serbian-Croatian state would be a temporary solution on the way to Croatian independence,{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} asked for a federal republic. As Pašić had majority in the assembly, a new constitution was proclaimed on [[Vidovdan]] (St. Vitus day), 28 June 1921, organizing the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as a parliamentary (albeit highly unitary) monarchy, abolishing even the remaining shreds of autonomy which had Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vojvodina (provincial governments). In the early 1920s, the Yugoslav government of Prime Minister Pašić used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets<ref name="Balkan Politics">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080220082638/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846181,00.html Balkan Politics], ''[[TIME Magazine]]'', 31 March 1923.</ref> and other measures of [[rigged election|election rigging]] to keep the opposition, mainly the autonomy-minded Croats, in minority in the Yugoslav parliament.<ref name="Elections">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080112220024/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719894,00.html Elections], ''[[TIME Magazine]]'', 23 February 1925.</ref><ref name="The Opposition">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080220081455/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720153,00.html The Opposition], ''[[TIME Magazine]]'', 6 April 1925.</ref>
[[File:Belgrad Nikola Pašić Grab.JPG|thumb|Pašić's grave at the [[Belgrade New Cemetery]]. The grave of [[Janko Vukotić]] can be seen to the right.]]
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