Serbian Government (BETAPHOTO/NENAD PETROVIC/)
Serbia’s new prime minister-designate, endocrinologist Djuro Macut, submitted on April 14 a list of his nominees for the country’s new cabinet, replacing a third of the current 30 ministers.
The parliamentary sitting where the proposal will be put to vote has been scheduled for April 15.
The prominent names missing from the list are the outgoing prime minister, Milos Vucevic, his deputy, Aleksandar Vulin, the education minister, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, and the ministers in charge of the justice department and environmental protection, Maja Popovic and Irena Vujovic, respectively.
Marko Djuric, Ivica Dacic, Sinisa Mali, Nikola Selakovic and Bratislav Gasic will keep their positions as the ministers of foreign affairs, the interior, finance, culture and defense, respectively.
Also keeping their posts are Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic, Minister of Economy Adrijana Mesarovic, Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar, Minister of Sports Zoran Gajic, Minister for the Care of Villages Milan Krkobabic, Minister of Tourism and Youth Husein Memic, as well as Minister for Public Investments Darko Glisic.
Dejan Vuk Stankovic, a professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, has been nominated as a new education minister, Nenad Vujic is a candidate for Serbia’s justice minister, and an academician, Bela Balint, for a minister in charge of science, technological development and innovation.
The outgoing Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Nemanja Starovic, might move the leading post at the Ministry of European Integration.
Dragan Glamocic has been proposed as Serbia’s new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management; Sara Pavkov is nominated as the minister of environmental protection, Aleksandra Sofronijevic as the next minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, and Jagoda Lazarevic as a minister of internal and external trade.
Among the new names are Snezana Paunovic, the next minister of public administration and local self-government, Demo Berisa, nominated for the leading post at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue, and Boris Bratina as Minister of Information and Telecommunications.
Minister for Family Care and Demography Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski is expected to take over the post of Serbia’s minister of labour, employment, veteran and social affairs, while her former position will be taken by Jelena Zaric Kovacevic, who served in the previous government as the Serbian minister of public administration and local self-government.
The new ministers without portfolio will be Novica Toncev, Djordje Milicevic, Usame Zukorlic, Nenad Popovic, and Tatjana Macura, who held the same positions in the previous government as well.
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