Members of the Serbian National Assembly will hold a session on April 14th during which a new government will be elected, announced yesterday the president of the Serbian parliament Ana Brnabic, adding that the new government should be elected by April 18th.
“I hope the session can begin already on Monday because we have to finish this by April 18th at midnight, but it’s also not right to work on Good Friday. So, the names of the ministers and the expose will be known then, but that above all depends on the mandate-holder,” said Brnabic.
Brnabic invited representatives of the Serbian opposition to the parliamentary session on Monday and added that it is fine to disagree on certain issues but that is what words, dialogue, and institutions are for.
“I also invite the representatives of the opposition in parliament to a conversation, to give Professor Doctor Macut a chance. That is the least he deserves for everything he has done in his life for our country,” said Brnabic.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, proposed on Sunday Djuro Macut, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, as the mandate-holder for the composition of the future Serbian government.
The legal deadline for electing a new government is April 18th, and if that does not happen, the President of Serbia is obliged to dissolve the National Assembly and call early parliamentary elections, which should be held within 45 to 60 days, which is the beginning of June.
Also, the Serbian Prime Minister in a technical mandate, MilosVucevic, said two days ago that he hopes the new government will be formed by April 18th, when the deadline expires for the assembly to elect the Prime Minister, or early parliamentary elections will be called.
Vucevic resigned in January amid a wave of student and citizen protests, and the direct cause was an incident in which members and supporters of SNS brutally beat a group of students and broke a female student’s jaw with a baseball bat.
However, the Serbian opposition and civic movements insist on a “government of public trust” which would, within a year, prepare fair conditions for democratic elections.
Vucic, for his part, has repeatedly stated that “as long as he is alive” he will not agree to a transitional government and that they “can only kill him” because he will not allow, as he said, “scum to take power without elections and ruin Serbia.”
