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== Government and administration ==
Serbia is a unitary parliamentary republic governed under the constitution that entered into force on 8 November 2006. The president is the head of state and is elected by popular vote. Executive authority is exercised by the government under the prime minister.

Legislative authority belongs to the unicameral [[National Assembly of Serbia]], which has 250 members. The assembly passes laws, adopts the state budget, approves the government, and oversees national institutions. The Constitutional Court rules on the conformity of laws and government acts with the constitution.

Vojvodina is an autonomous province with its own assembly and executive institutions. The remainder of the country is commonly described as central Serbia. Administrative districts coordinate state institutions outside the central government, while cities and municipalities provide local government. Belgrade has separate territorial and municipal institutions as the national capital.

Serbian is the official language of the state, and the Cyrillic alphabet is the official script. The Latin alphabet is also widely used. Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Albanian, and other languages have official local status in municipalities where legal requirements are met.