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The Politics of Serbia and Montenegro took place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic...

The Politics of Serbia and Montenegro took place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, with a multi-party system. The President of Serbia and Montenegro was both head of state and, as chairman of the Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro, head of government. Executive power was exercised by the government. Federal legislative power was vested in both the government and the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro. However, most of the power within the State Union, which was dissolved in June 2006, lay with the governments of its two constituent republics, Serbia and Montenegro. On 4 February 2003 parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia agreed to a weaker union between Serbia and Montenegro within a commonwealth called "Serbia and Montenegro". After June 1999, Kosovo was made a United Nations protectorate, under the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) based in Priština. From early 2001, UNMIK has been working with representatives of the Serbian and union governments to reestablish stable relations in the region. A new assembly of the province was elected in November 2001, which formed a government and chose a president in February 2002. In spring 2002, UNMIK