Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia Ana Brnabić has called a session to elect a new government on April 15 at 10 a.m. local time, NOVA reported.
There is only one item on the agenda of the session - the election of a government and swearing in before the president.
Candidate for Prime Minister Đuro Macut submitted a proposal for the composition of the Serbian government on Monday, including biographies of the proposed ministers.
The new cabinet will have, as before, 31 ministers. One third of them are new. The name of the former Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, the right-hand man of President Aleksandar Vucic, is missing, but many of the current ministers retain their posts.
Vucic believes that the cabinet will be voted on by parliament by the end of the week. The absence of Vulin, the former director of the Serbian Security and Information Service and the driving force behind the geopolitical project "Serbian World", is significant.
In 2023, he was placed on the "black list" of the US for illegal arms trafficking, corruption and guidance of Russian interests in the Balkans, and within the same year he was awarded the Order of the Russian Federation by the Director of the Russian Federal Security Service and General in the Russian Army Alexander Bortnikov.
Part of the opposition announced a boycott of the session.
We recall that on March 19, the Serbian Parliament confirmed the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, after which a 30-day period for the election of a new cabinet began. He resigned from his post on January 28 after an attack on students during a blockade in Novi Sad by activists from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
The deadline for choosing a government is April 18 at midnight, and if it is not chosen by then, the president is obliged to dissolve parliament and schedule elections, which according to the law will be held in early June.
The full list of future ministers in the Serbian government:
• Sinisa Mali has been nominated as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance,
• Ivica Dacic - as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior,
• Adriana Mesarovic has been nominated as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy.
• Dragan Glamočić - Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
• Sara Pavkov - Minister of Environmental Protection
• Aleksandra Sofronijević - Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure
• Dubravka Džedović Handović - Minister of Mining and Energy.
• Jagoda Lazarević - Minister of Internal and Foreign Trade
• Nenad Vuić - Minister of Justice
• Snezana Paunović - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
• Demo Berisha - Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue.
• Bratislav Gašić - Minister of Defence
• Marko Đurić - Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Nemanja Starović - Minister of European Integration
• Dejan Vuk Stanković - Minister of Education
• Zlatibor Lončar - Minister of Health
• Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski - Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs.
• Jelena Žarić Kovačević - Minister of Family Affairs and Demography
• Zoran Gajić - Minister of Sports
• Nikola Selaković - Minister of Culture
• Milan Krkobabić - Minister of Rural Affairs.
• Academician Béla Bálint - Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation
• Husein Memic - Minister of Tourism and Youth
• Boris Bratina - Minister of Information and Telecommunications
• Darko Glisic - Minister of Public Investments.
• Novica Tonchev, Djordje Miličević, Usama Zukorlić, Nenad Popović and Tatjana Matsura have been proposed as ministers without portfolio.