The Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative () was a political party in SFR Yugoslavia. It is widely considered the first independent all-Yugoslav political movement.
UJDI's basic tenets were the transformation of the state through democratization, freedom of thought and political activity, including free multi-party elections, as well as the support for Yugoslavia as a united federal state, as opposed to centralism and separatism.
History In January 1989, UJDI's co-founder Predrag Matvejević described its goal as "making the Socialist Alliance [of Working People of Yugoslavia] into a kind of an alternative party, a socialist one, in which alternative solutions and alternative cadres could arise, as well as the rectification of everything about the League of Communists [of Yugoslavia] that was not working and was not good".
UJDI was founded on February 2, 1989, in Zagreb, by a group of left-leaning intellectuals, notably its first president was Branko Horvat, the second president was , its director was Žarko Puhovski and the members included Predrag Matvejević, Abdulah Sidran, Bogdan Bogdanović, Milan Kangrga, Lev Kreft, Shkëlzen Maliqi, Vesna Pešić, Koča Popović, Milorad Pupovac, Karlo Štajner, , Božidar Gajo Sekulić, Rudi Supek, Ljubomir Tadić, Dubravka Ugrešić, Tibor Várady, Predrag Vranicki, Nenad Zakošek and Jug Grizelj.
A Slovenian affiliate of the party was also founded under the leadership of the sociologist Rastko Močnik,Božo Repe, Slovenci v osemdesetih letih, (Ljubljana 2001), 51. but it ceased functioning even before the 1990 multi-party elections.
In the 1990 Serbian parliamentary election, it obtained 0.5% and won 1 seat by Tibor Várady.
In the 1990 Serbian presidential election, Ivan Đurić ran as the common candidate of UJDI and the Union of Reform Forces and won 5.5% of the vote, finishing in the third place.
In 1992, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, its Serbian branch merged into the Civil Alliance of Serbia.
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