Expulsion

Serbian Socialist Party MPs, Ljubomir Novakovic and Ratko Ristic, proposed on March 19, 1992 that the citizens of Serbia, who fled the country because of the war, be forbidden to return. The government has, in accordance with the Constitution, refused to pass any act pertaining to the above. Worse than the abstention of the government was the behavior of the Mps: 80 voted "for", 80 voted "against", and 23 abstained (the decision was not passed because the support of 113 MPs was needed).

Among the MPs who voted for the deprivation of citizenship of hundreds of thousands of people were some militant MPs from the opposition right wing, but the voters' core of those who supported this proposal were from the Socialist Party.

At the same session, MP Anton Agoston (of the Democratic Union of Vojvodina Hungarians) proposed issuing a public call to those who fled the country due to the war, and this was rejected. The Serbian Minister of Interior, General Marko Negovanovic, explained this move of the government by saying that the deserters were not breaking Serbian laws but federal ones. The number of those who voted for amnesty was symbolic.