The leadership, consisting of the president and the secretary of the Presidency, led the work of the Committee of the League of Communists Organisation in the Yugoslav People's Army (LCY–YPA), the party organisation of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) in the military.
The president served ex officio as a member of the LCY Presidency and of the LCY Central Committee.
To be eligible to serve, the president had to be a member of the LCY–YPA Presidency.