Parliament set to elect Speaker

Parliament set to elect Speaker

The Serbian parliament has six deputy speakers, three of them elected last week - Nataša Jovanović from the Serb Radical Party (SRS), Radojko Obradović from the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Milutin Mrkonjić from the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

The candidates for the post of deputy speaker are Božidar Delić from the Serb Radical Party, Miloljub Albijanić from the G17 Plus and Esad Džudžević, on behalf of the parties of the national minorities, to whom the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) has ceded the candidacy.

The parliament also has to fill the posts in the parliamentary committees, which are presently made up only of elected members from the Serb Radical Party, the Democratic Party of Serbia and the Socialist Party of Serbia.

The parliament is also to appoint the delegations, representing the parliament in international bodies.

The candidate for the secretary of the Serbian parliament is Milan Lučić, the former secretary of the federal parliament.

After the speaker is appointed, Lučić will be nominated by Oliver Dulić.

Dulić announced that he would nominate Marko Danilović and Miloš Todorović as Lučić's deputies.