Background
See also: Breakup of Yugoslavia, Contributions for the Slovenian National Program, JBTZ trial, Slovenian Territorial Defence
Following the death of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in 1980, underlying political, ethnic, religious, and economic tensions within Yugoslavia surfaced. In 1989 Slobodan Milošević, Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia since 1986, became president of Serbia, the largest and most populous of the six Yugoslav republics. As Milošević moved to consolidate power by centralizing the state, the governments of the other republics sought to loosen the central grip on power by devolving as much constitutional power as possible to each of the republics and autonomous provinces. A series of disagreements among delegates persisted until four of the six republics each made the decision to secede from Yugoslavia. Slovenia was among those republics aiming for independence.
The first action in defence of Slovenian independency, that united both the opposition and democratized communist establishment in Slovenia was, however, carried out by the Slovene police forces, members of which later organized their own veteran organization, in an action named Action North in 1989.
In April 1990, Slovenia held its first democratic multi-party elections, won by the DEMOS coalition.
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