DS deputy leader on government reshuffle

Democratic Party deputy leader Dragan Djilas has announced a new Law on Ministries and personnel solutions for the government reshuffle in the next several days. “DS’ position was that the country needed a government with new people, energy and rules, a more efficient government with fewer ministries,” he pointed out. DS deputy leader on government reshuffle He stated that the prime minister and strategic goals would remain the same. “A government work code is being prepared which will mean that the government is a team and that not everybody can impose their own ideas,” Djilas said. He has expressed belief that the government will work as a team after the reshuffle. The DS deputy leader, who took part in the talks regarding the government reshuffle, stressed that the new cabinet was expected to take concrete measures and to do its job regardless of the crisis. “Still, I don’t think that anybody would have ran the government and the country in the past two years better than the Democratic Party,” Djilas stressed. Dragan Djilas (Tanjug) “Elections will be called if reshuffle doesn’t work” “If the government is not functional after the reshuffle, we will not have a government but elections,” he said and assessed that a reshuffle was necessary in order to bring in new people, new energy and new knowledge. “We did not discuss the reshuffle in the media, and I think in a few days we will have the solutions and see the program which Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic will announce to the Serbian people," the Belgrade mayor pointed out. Djilas said he thought the downward slide would stop and that the government would have a work code so that everyone would work together and, more specifically, so that people could say they actually lived better. Asked how the government would handle a second Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) rally set for mid April, the DS deputy leader said that the opposition has the right to peaceful protest. “I don’t understand that request because we will have the elections in April next year,” he said, adding that both the government and the opposition were responsible for every word and action.

DS deputy leader on government reshuffle

He stated that the prime minister and strategic goals would remain the same.

“A government work code is being prepared which will mean that the government is a team and that not everybody can impose their own ideas,” Đilas said.

He has expressed belief that the government will work as a team after the reshuffle.

The DS deputy leader, who took part in the talks regarding the government reshuffle, stressed that the new cabinet was expected to take concrete measures and to do its job regardless of the crisis.

“Still, I don’t think that anybody would have ran the government and the country in the past two years better than the Democratic Party,” Đilas stressed.

“Elections will be called if reshuffle doesn’t work”

“If the government is not functional after the reshuffle, we will not have a government but elections,” he said and assessed that a reshuffle was necessary in order to bring in new people, new energy and new knowledge.

“We did not discuss the reshuffle in the media, and I think in a few days we will have the solutions and see the program which Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will announce to the Serbian people," the Belgrade mayor pointed out.

Đilas said he thought the downward slide would stop and that the government would have a work code so that everyone would work together and, more specifically, so that people could say they actually lived better.

Asked how the government would handle a second Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) rally set for mid April, the DS deputy leader said that the opposition has the right to peaceful protest.

“I don’t understand that request because we will have the elections in April next year,” he said, adding that both the government and the opposition were responsible for every word and action.