The Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić, has scheduled an extraordinary session of the Parliament for April 15, at which members of the new Serbian Government will be elected.
This announcement was published on the official website of the Parliament of Serbia.
According to Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), the candidate for Prime Minister of Serbia, Gjuro Macut, submitted to the Parliament on April 14 the proposal for the composition of the Serbian Government, along with the biographies of the proposed members.
Sinisha Malli, who previously held the same position, has been nominated as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been entrusted to Ivica Dacic, who also remains Deputy Prime Minister.
Adrijana Mesarović has been nominated as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy. She also led this portfolio in the Government of Miloš Vučević.
According to the proposal submitted by Macut to the Serbian Parliament, it is expected that the following will also remain in their duties: Bratislav Gašić (Minister of Defense), Marko Đurić (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Dubravka Gjedović Handanović (Minister of Mining and Energy), Zlatibor Lončar (Minister of Health), Nikola Selaković (Minister of Culture) and Milan Đerkobabić (Minister of Rural Care).
Dejan Vuk Stankovic, professor at the Faculty of Education in Belgrade, has been proposed as the new Minister of Education.
The European Integration portfolio is expected to be entrusted to Nemanja Starović, who in the previous Serbian Government led the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs.
Milica Đurđević Stamenković, who was Minister for Family Care and Demography in Miloš Vučević's executive, has been proposed for this portfolio in the new Government.
Dragan Glamočić has been proposed as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Sara Pavkov as Minister of Environmental Protection, Jagoda Lazarević as Minister of Internal and Foreign Trade, Nenad Vujić as Minister of Justice, Snezhana Paunović as Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government, and Demo Berisha as Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue.
The following have been proposed as ministers without portfolio: Novica Tonchev, Gjorge Milkijevic, Usame Zukorlic, Nenad Popovic and Tatjana Macura.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on April 6 entrusted the mandate to form a new government to endocrinologist and professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, Đuro Macu. Vučić previously held consultations with parliamentary parties on the new government's prime minister, in which opposition parties did not participate.
The opposition has proposed the formation of a transitional government, which has been rejected by the ruling coalition.
The Serbian government has been in a caretaker mandate since March 19, when MPs in the Parliament verified Vučević's resignation from the post of Prime Minister, which marked the beginning of the 30-day deadline for electing a new government.
Vučević resigned after a group of students were beaten by activists of the Serbian Progressive Party who were blocking the work of faculties in Novi Sad.
The fall of the Serbian government, led by Miloš Vučević, occurred at the height of anti-government protests, led by students who have been blocking dozens of faculties across Serbia since late November 2024.
At the center of their demands, addressed to Serbian institutions, is the determination of legal and political responsibility for the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of the concrete shelter at the Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1 last year./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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