Vučić presents composition of cabinet to SNS

Vučić presents composition of cabinet to SNS

SNS nominated Lazar Krstić for the position of finance minister, Dušan Vujović for minister of economy, Zorana Mihajlović for deputy prime minister and minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, Nikola Selaković was proposed for the office of minister of justice, Kori Udovički for minister of public administration and local self-government.

Bratislav Gašić was proposed for the position of defense minister, Zlatibor Lončar for minister of health, while Stefanović himself will serve as minister of interior.

Jadranka Joksimović will be minister without portfolio in charge of European integration, while it was agreed that minister of energy should come from the lines of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Stefanović revealed.

Presenting the solutions put forth by the SNS, Stefanović said that coalition partners would propose the candidates for other ministries.

Following the session of the SNS Main Board, Stefanović told reporters that there are one or two minor dilemmas concerning some government members which would be resolved on Saturday.

Leader of the Movement of Socialists Aleksandar Vulin and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia Rasim Ljajić will also have seats in the government and the complete list of government members will be released on Saturday, Stefanović noted.

It has been agreed that the candidate for the energy minister should come from SPS lines, he said but he could not specify when the coalition agreements with socialists and the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians would be signed.

Vučić announced earlier and confirmed on Friday that his government would be formed on Sunday, April 27, "by 19:00 hours".

Vučić said on Tuesday, after President Tomislav Nikolić entrusted him with a mandate to form the government, that it would have "16 ministries and 18 members," and that its goal would be "reforms, such as those in Estonia and the Baltic States, which lasted two years."

Vučić's cabinet will be made up of the coalition led by his party in the election in which it achieved a landslide victory, and by the coalition around the Socialists (SPS), along with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM).