The Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić, announced on Friday that a session will be held on April 14 to vote on the country's new Government, emphasizing that "it is up to the deputies to give a chance" to the prime minister-designate, Gjuro Macu.
"I hope that the session can start already on Monday, because we have to finish this process by April 18 at midnight. So, we will know the names of the ministers and the composition then, but this depends first of all on the prime minister," Brnabic told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Friday.
She said that she has invited representatives of the parliamentary opposition for talks, in order "to give Professor Macu a chance."
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, mandated the endocrinologist and professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, Gjuro Macut, to form the new Government a week ago.
Vučić had previously held consultations with parliamentary parties regarding the candidate for the composition of the new Government.
Opposition parties had refused to participate in those consultations. The opposition had proposed the formation of a transitional government, which the ruling coalition rejects.
The Serbian government has been in a technical mandate since March 19, when MPs in the Assembly approved the resignation of Miloš Vučević from the post of Prime Minister, which marked the beginning of the 30-day deadline for electing a new government.
Vucevic resigned a month and a half ago after activists from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party beat a group of students who were blocking the work of the faculty in Novi Sad.
The fall of the Serbian government, led by Vučević, occurred at the height of protests against the regime, led by students who have blocked dozens of faculties across Serbia since late November 2024.
At the center of their demands, which they have submitted to Serbian institutions, is the determination of legal and political responsibility for the deaths of 16 people from the collapse of the Railway Station shelter in Novi Sad, on November 1st of last year./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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