Svetozar Pribićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Прибићевић, pronounced [sʋêtozaːr pribǐːt͡ɕeʋit͡ɕ]; 26 October 1875 – 15 September 1936) was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

[12] As Italy overran parts of the new state's territory in Istria and along the coast of Dalmatia he urged the council to seek unification with Serbia without delay.

Instead, they joined with the Serbian opposition (including the party of Ljubomir Davidović) to form a bloc that was to dominate the Provisional Representation, which served as a Parliament until the election of the Constituent Assembly.

The Democratic Party refused this, but at a meeting of their deputies club they voted, by secret ballot, that Pribićević should step down as Minister of Internal Affairs.

[2] When Nikola Pašić and Stjepan Radić came to an agreement in 1925 which would temporarily pacify the Croatian Peasant Party, Pribićević switched to the opposition, and started thinking that his prior support for the Radicals had only helped fortify the Serbian domination.

After the election of 1927, the Independent Democrats and Croatian Peasant Party both became the opposition, and then decided to form the Peasant-Democrat coalition (Serbo-Croatian: Seljačko-demokratska koalicija, SDK).

[clarification needed] This in turn mobilized nationalist opposition in Serbia but provoked a violent reaction from the governing majority including death threats.

In 1929, the January 6th Dictatorship was instituted by the King and Pribićević was interned by the authorities in Brus, Serbia for a period of two years, when finally in 1931, his health problems allowed him to be released and emigrate.

[18] He also wrote a "Letter to the Serbs" the same year, in which he advocated an understanding between the Serbs and the Croats based on equality of the two nations, stating that "any other way and solution would mean eternal friction, mutual conflicts and wars, which would eventually end disastrously for both" (svaki drugi put i rješenje značilo bi vječite trzavice, međusobne sukobe i ratove, koji bi se na kraju katastrofalno završili za oboje).