A collective presidency existed in Yugoslavia since amendments to the 1963 Constitution in 1971.

[1] In 1974 a new Constitution was adopted which reaffirmed the collective federal presidency consisting of representatives of the six republics, the two autonomous provinces within Serbia and (until 1988) the President of the League of Communists.

[2] A separate article affirmed Josip Broz Tito with an unlimited mandate which ensured the new President of the Presidency would not come into effect until after his death.

[3] Simultaneously an office of Vice President of the Presidency had been in place since 1971 on a rotating annual basis between republican and provincial representatives.

League of Communists of Yugoslavia Liberal Democracy of Slovenia Socialist Party of Serbia Croatian Democratic Union Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro Denotes an acting head of state