ns: president elected by the Federal Assembly for a four-year
term; election last held 25 June 1993 (next to be held NA 1997); prime
minister nominated by the president
election results : Zoran LILIC elected president; percent of
legislative vote - NA

Legislative branch: bicameral Federal Assembly or Savezna Skupstina
consists of the Chamber of Republics or Vece Republika (40 seats, 20
Serbian, 20 Montenegrin; members distributed on the basis of party
representation in the republican assemblies to serve four-year terms)
and the Chamber of Citizens or Vece Gradjana (138 seats, 108 Serbian
with half elected by constituency majorities and half by proportional
representation, 30 Montenegrin with six elected by constituency and 24
proportionally; members serve four-year terms)
elections: Chamber of Republics - last held 24 December 1996 (next to
be held NA 2000); Chamber of Citizens - last held 3 November 1996
(next to be held NA 2000)
election results : Chamber of Republics - percent of vote by party -
NA; seats by party - NA; note - seats are filled on a proportional
basis to reflect the composition of the legislatures of the republics
of Montenegro and Serbia; Chamber of Citizens - percent of vote by
party - NA; seats by party - SPS/JUL/ND 64, Zajedno 22, DPSCG 20, SRS
16, NS 8, SVM 3, other 5; note - Zajedno coalition includes SPO, DS,
GSS

Judicial branch: Federal Court or Savezni Sud, judges are elected by
the Federal Assembly; Constitutional Court, judges are elected by the
Federal Assembly

Political parties and leaders: Serbian Socialist Party or SPS (former
Communist Party) [Slobodan MILOSEVIC]; Serbian Radical Party or SRS
[Vojislav SESELJ]; Serbian Renewal Movement or SPO [Vuk DRASKOVIC,
president]; Democratic Party or DS [Zoran DJINDJIC]; Democratic Party
of Serbia or DSS [Vojislav KOSTUNICA]; Democratic Party of Socialists
of Montenegro or DPSCG [Momir BULATOVIC, president]; People's Party of
Montenegro or NS [Milan PAROSKI]; Liberal Alliance of Montenegro
[Slavko PEROVIC]; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians or DZVM
[Sandor PALL]; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia or SK-PJ
[Dragan ATANASOVSKI]; Democratic Alliance of Kosovo or LDK [Dr.
Ibrahim RUGOVA, president]; Party of Democratic Action or SDA
[Sulejman UGLJANIN]; Civic Alliance of Serbia or GSS [Vesna PESIC,
chairman]; Socialist Party of Montenegro or SP [leader NA]; Yugoslav
United Left or JUL [Mirjana MARKOVIC (MILOSEVIC's wife)