Designate PM: Government Forming Process Cannot Be Accelerated

Serbian Government building (BETAPHOTO/NENAD PETROVIC)

The designate prime minister of Serbia, Milos Vucevic, stated on April 25 that the process of forming the government, for which the deadline is May 6, could not be “accelerated or rushed” because, in his words, “many circumstances have effect on that process.”

“Unfortunately, we do not have the environment that other countries have, because a sword is hanging over our heads: the issue of Kosovo in the process of joining the Council of Europe, the U.N. draft resolution that has drawn immense capacities of the executive authority, we have talks and agreements about when the local elections would be held and all that affects the political processes,” Vucevic said.

He did not say when the government would be formed, but stated that “a dynamic weekend lies ahead” and that the “final step” in forming the government would begin after that. “We have not missed the deadline; the government will be formed within the legal deadline and I am eager to present the program of the future Serbian government to the MPs and to the entire public,” said the designate PM.