National Assembly to convene for first meeting on Friday

National Assembly to convene for first meeting on Friday

The mandates of the assembly's 250 people's deputies, allocated after the April 24 snap elections, will be confirmed during the sitting, when assembly president and their deputy, as well as secretary general should also be elected.

Until this happens, the meeting will be chaired by the oldest deputy assisted by the four youngest, coming from electoral lists that have won the most seats, and by the secretary general.

Twelve electoral lists will be represented in the new assembly, with the one led by the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) having 131 seats. They are followed by SPS-JS (29), the Serb Radical Party (SRS; 22), the Enough is Enough Movement (16), the Democratic Party (DS)-led coalition (16), Dveri-DSS (13) and LDP-LSV-SDS (13).

These lists had to cross the 5-percent threshold - a rule that does not apply to parties and coalitions representing Serbia's minorities. Five such electoral lists will also be represented in the National Assembly - the SVM (ethnic Hungarians - 4 mandates), Muamer Zukorlic - Bosniak (Muslim) Democratic Community of Sanzak (2), the Green Party (ethnic Slovaks - 1) and the PDA (ethnic Albanians - 1).

Once the Assembly has been constituted, Serbia must get a new government within the next three months.