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Vojvodina Coalition (Political party, Serbia)

Koalicija Vojvodina

Current status of the Vojvodina Coalition
Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 2000-2005
Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 1996-2000

See also:

Serbia
Vojvodina (Serbia)
League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina
Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Serbia and Montenegro)

Current status of the Vojvodina Coalition

In April 2005, the Vojvodina Coalition, originally founded in 1996, merged, together with several other regional political parties and organizations, into the newly formed Vojvodinian Party (Vojvodjanska partija), so the flag shown below are no longer in use since then. The new party might have adopted a flag, but currently there are no such informations.

Tomislav Todorović, 25 January 2006

Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 2000-2005

Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 2000-2005 - Image by Tomislav Todorović & Mladen Mijatov, 8 July 2004

The present-day flag of the Vojvodina Coalition is a blue-yellow-green horizontal tricolor with the party logotype in the centre and the proportions 1:2. The logotype consists of party name in Serbian - "Koalicija Vojvodina" - written in two lines in black, and a small red disc, placed where the dot of the letter "i" in the word "Vojvodina" should be if that letter had the lowercase form (all the letters, including that one, have the uppercase forms, only their sizes are different). The flag first appeared in 2000. The proportions varied at first between 2:3 and 1:2, only the latter eventually remaining. Originally, I was seeing only its image on the TV, where it was used as an "expanded" version of the logo rather than a flag. The first use of the design in real life which I could record was in the TV report from the 2nd Electoral Convention of the party on 18 May 2005, although it certainly was not the first time it was used. For a long time, it was in parallel use with copies of previous flag versions, but since summer 2002 this is the only version in use.

Variant of the current flag of the Vojvodina Coalition - Image by Tomislav Todorović & Mladen Mijatov, 8 July 2004

A different version of the present design has appeared in summer 2000 during the election campaign, when its small copies made of paper were distributed to the people who attended the party rallies. It has the proportions 2:3, employs much lighter shades of blue, yellow and green than the other flag versions and in the centre is the party logotype. The flag remained in parallel use with other versions until summer 2002 (then I saw it for the last time - and for the first time as a flag made of fabric). Since then, only the present version of the flag is in use.

Tomislav Todorović, 25 January 2006

Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 1996-2000

Flag of the Vojvodina Coalition, 1996-2000 - Image by Tomislav Todorović & Mladen Mijatov, 8 July 2004

The original flag of the Vojvodina Coalition was adopted at the time of its founding in 1996. It is a plain blue-yellow-green horizontal tricolor with proportions 1:2. The logotype was adopted at the same time but seems not to have been added to the flag since 2000. After having been replaced with the present design, the existing copies of the original flag were kept in parallel use until 2002 (at least, I have seen them for the last time in summer that year).

The Vojvodina Coalition was founded in 1996 by the LSV, the Reformative Democratic Party of Vojvodina (Reformska demokratska stranka Vojvodine) and the People's Peasants' Party (Narodna seljacka stranka). The flag dates from the same time and was used by the coalition as a whole. In 1998, the LSV and the Reformative Democratic Party of Vojvodina left the coalition after a series of conflicts with the People's Peasants' Party and stopped using the horizontal tricolor; since then, it was used only by the remaining members of the coalition - the People's Peasants' Party and a Movement for Vojvodina (Pokret za Vojvodinu), whose registration as a coalition member had actually initiated the said conflict. The flag of the Vojvodina Coalition (which exists as a unified party since then) still has the same basic design. The vertical blue-yellow-green tricolor was also introduced in 1996 by the same original coalition, but was used as a would-be flag of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. After the 1998 split, both sides continued to use this flag with the same purpose until 2000, when it was last used by the Vojvodina Coalition in the election campaigns. Since then, the vertical tricolor was, and still is, used by the LSV only. However, in the 2003 election campaign a new flag of the LSV has appeared along with the tricolor: it has a white field, ratio of about 1:2, in the hoist is the new party logo and in the fly is the party name, spelled in the six official languages of the province (Serb, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Ruthenian and Croat) on six lines (the actual order might vary a bit from the above) in black letters and separated with black horizontal lines; the logotype is a large red square with white letters LSV in bottom left part and three bars, blue, yellow and green respectively and outlined white, in the bottom right part. There is an obvious intention to make difference between the party flag and the proposed provincial flag (the blue, yellow and green colors were promoted by the LSV since 1990, when the party was founded).

Tomislav Todorović, 25 January 2006

Other reported flag of the Vojvodina Coalition - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2000

As reported by M. Corbic (Franciae Vexilla [frv] #19/65, September 2000), the Vojvodina Coalition used during demonstrations in 1999 an horizontally divided blue-yellow-green flag with the party name in white in upper hoist.

Ivan Sache, 25 October 2000

The flag with the party name in white letters on blue in the canton is probably an unofficial version; I have only seen its image on the TV, where it was used more like a logotype than a flag, but never saw it in real life. It is difficult to determine the date of its adoption and abandoning, as different versions of the basic flag design were in parallel use during long periods of time, but it is the most likely to have been used until the year 2000.
As can be seen, it is difficult to determine the exact dates of adoption and abandoning of each flag, as the older versions have been in use parallelly with the newer ones for some time, as it usually happens with political flags in Serbia.

Tomislav Todorović, 8 July 2004