Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has tasked Prof. Dr. Djuro Matsut, who is an endocrinologist, to form a government, BTA reported.
Vucic announced the nomination last night during an address to the nation and said that the candidate for prime minister has an impressive biography.
Prof. Dr. Djuro Matsut has an academic, research and clinical career and is a frequent guest of the media in Serbia on health-related topics.
Dressed in a white coat, Prof. Matsut appeared on stage in Jagodina (Central Serbia) in January as a member of the Initiative Committee for the creation of a new supra-party movement in Serbia, launched by Aleksandar Vucic in the midst of anti-government protests that have been going on for five months.
“He assured me that he could secure a majority in parliament to elect a new government“, Vucic said during his address to the nation tonight.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic also said that the new government would be elected by April 18 and that it would face difficult tasks such as “resisting all kinds of pressure regarding regional policy, resolving the issue of tariffs imposed by the United States, accelerating European integration and at the same time preserving its traditional friends in the East, as well as restoring the level of investment.”
“The new government faces the great task of continuing to preserve peace and stability, behaves tolerantly and patiently. The government must have a clear commitment to the future, and our desire and intention is to return Serbia to the winner's pedestal and become the fastest growing economy by the end of the year," the Serbian president said.
Vucic said that one of the main tasks of the new government is the implementation of the specialized world exhibition EXPO 2027 in Belgrade, which, according to him, will form the basis for a new investment cycle in the next term.
Prime Minister Miloš Vučević resigned on January 28 after supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party, of which he is chairman, attacked protesting students in Novi Sad with baseball bats.
Serbia has been gripped by demonstrations, work stoppages and civil unrest since a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad on November 1, killing 16 people. disobedience, organized mainly by students, who blocked over 60 faculties in four cities and leveled accusations of corruption and nepotism against the government and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.