Skupština (Assembly of the People's Representation)

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The Skupština ( Serbian - Cyrillic Скупштина ) [ skupʃtina ] is generally the Serbian name for the consultative assembly of people's representatives and the Narodno Predstavništvo or a corporation , for. B. a city ​​council , but also their meeting house. It is derived from the verb skupljati , which means “to collect something” or from the designation for an assembly, the skup . The representation of the people at the level of the nation-state , the National Assembly , is mostly referred to as the parliament , so that today the Skupština mostly refers to the Serbian parliament or the Skupština at the national level, the so-called Narodna skupština Srbije , the "Volksskupština of Serbia", or Skupština for short, in the conference building which Skupština has its seat in Belgrade .