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60 KAREN S. LYNCH CVS HEALTH CEO COMBINING PASSIONATE LEADERSHIP AND THE CHAMPIONING OF CHANGE

68 A CENTURY OF THE BELGRADE PHILHARMONIC ENTHUSIASM, DEDICATION AND VIRTUOSITY

76 CHILL OUT

78 READY, SET, SUMMER Fashion

80 CULTURE CALENDAR

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63 ŽOLT LAZAR DOCTOR OF SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MASTER OF POLITICAL SCIENCES SERBIAN SOCIETY CAN TRANSFORM SUSTAINABLY

70 IN HISTORY, THE BEST TOLD STORY WINS PREDRAG J. MARKOVIĆ, HISTORIAN

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64 EUROPE’S 7 MOST ENDANGERED HERITAGE SITES 2023 Culture

Speaking at the recent SNS rally in Belgrade, Aleksandar Vučić announced that he is finally (after many fake announcements) stepping down from the position of president of Serbia’s largest political party. He will thereby finally be in compliance with famous Article 115 of the Constitution of Serbia, which states, with no ambiguity whatsoever, that “the President of the Republic may not perform any other public function or professional activity”. Vučić’s predecessor, Tomislav Nikolić, showed respect for the Constitution by standing down as SNS president soon after assuming the position of President of the Republic. And he promptly lost all the power that the ambitious Vučić seized as the party’s new leader.

Vučić now doesn’t have such an ambitious party member, so at the party’s Assembly in Kragujevac he installed loyal party member and current defence minister Miloš Vučević as SNS president.

Although relinquishing the presidency of a party, as a source of legitimacy, is always a risky move, even when the leader has unquestionable authority, Vučić is far from “depoliticised” in the way Nikolić was. He will, of course, control SNS absolutely for the foreseeable future, and as President of the Republic he will also be the informal “nation’s leader” as head of the “people’s movement”, the formation of which he announced for 28 th June – marking the

BY ZORAN PANOVIĆ