Word: skupshtina
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...shots were fired at Premier N. Pashitch as he was entering his car in front of the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly). The Premier saved his life by falling to the floor of the car, but was wounded in the hand...
Pashitch, Premier of the last legislature, made an ostensibly sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections by capturing 120 seats out of a possible 318, which will form the new Assembly (Narodna Skupshtina). His program is to strengthen . the unity of the State, now threatened by a separationist movement by Croatia; to improve further relations with Bulgaria; to keep a watchful eye on the Magyars; and to make Yugo- slavia the strongest military power in the Balkans. This is not a peaceful policy, and success is purely hallucinatory...