POSITION OF POLITICAL YOUTH IN THE PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

The position of political youth, i.e. youth who deal with political issues in various direct and indirect ways, has one prerequisite for existence and action, and that is its proclamation in the most important legal and political acts of all political organizations - in the statute, and then in the regulations on the work of the political party bodies. In that case, so (un)defined - political youth has concrete and real mechanisms through which it acts, i.e. through which it implements the policy that is considered "youth" regardless of whether it is in power or not. All the more, because it would be extremely unusual to expect politicians who are not young to deal with their issues before the young, or even worse, without them. Defining the youth, their work and responsibilities, within the acts of political parties, represents at the same time the recognition of their political subjectivity and implies their inclusion in the broader social and political - and not only fictitious-political life and gives it a certain weight. The paper will mention only the parties of the current convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia that, in the parliamentary elections held in December 2023, won the electoral census of 3% for entering the parliament, with two exceptions, primarily due to the fact that at the moment there are 129 registered of political parties, which is not possible, nor expedient, to process.