The building of the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade (BETAPHOTO/ VAI)
April 3 marks the second day of negotiations on Serbia’s next prime-minister designate, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic set to meet with the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and Serbian Progressive Party.
Vucic’s office announced that the day’s agenda included meetings with representatives of two election tickets: Ivica Dacic – Prime Minister of Serbia and Aleksandar Vucic – Serbia Must Not Stop.
The former ticket comprised the Socialists along with the United Serbia party and the Greens of Serbia, while the ticket named after Vucic included a number of smaller parties led by the Progressives.
On April 2, negotiations began with Vucic convening with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, the Russian party, the Justice and Reconciliation Party, the Democratic alliance of Croats in Vojvodina and the We – Voice from the People caucus.
Part of those representatives stated they favored creating a new cabinet rather than a snap election, which the law says must be called should a new government not be formed by April 18.
Ahead of the consultations, the majority of opposition MPs made it clear they would not answer Vucic’s invitation to discuss a new cabinet.
Serbia’s National Assembly recognized outgoing prime minister Milos Vucevic’s resignation on March 19. This changed the current cabinet’s status to caretaker and started a countdown to the deadline for forming a new government, which ends at midnight on April 18.
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