The Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, has convened a session to elect a new government on April 15, at 10:00 a.m. local time, BGNES reported.
There is only one item on the agenda of the meeting - the election of a government and the swearing-in of the president.
Prime Ministerial candidate Djuro Mazut submitted a proposal for the composition of the Serbian government on Monday, April 14th, including biographies of the proposed ministers.
The new cabinet will have 31 ministers, as before. One third of them are new. The name of the current Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, the right-hand man of President Aleksandar Vucic, is missing, but many of the current ministers will retain their posts. Vucic believes that the cabinet will be voted on by parliament by the end of the week. The absence of Vulin, former director of the Serbian Security and Information Service /BIA/ and the driving force behind the geopolitical project "Serbian World", is significant. In 2023, he was placed on the US "blacklist" for illegal arms trafficking, corruption and facilitating Russian interests in the Balkans, and in 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 that it will not attend the session on April 15.
The parliamentary rules stipulate that the nominee for Prime Minister must explain the proposal to the members of his cabinet and present the plan and program of the new government. The government is elected if a majority of the total number of MPs, i.e. at least 126 MPs, vote in its support.
On March 19, the Serbian parliament confirmed the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, after which a 30-day period for selecting a new cabinet began.
Vucevic resigned from his post on January 28th following an attack on students at 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 one 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.
