SERBIA DAILY No17

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• N° 17 • Belgrade, May 19, 2016

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Consultations on New Government Start

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A new government will need the support of at least 126 deputies and considering that the SNS-led list has 131, Aleksandar Vucic will have the opportunity to once again put together his cabinet

resident Tomislav Nikolic will today start consultations on the formation of Serbia's new government by meeting with Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic heads the outgoing government and is the leader of the Serb Progressive Party, whose pre-election coalition won 131 out of 250 seats in the National Assembly in the April 24 snap parliamentary election. The consultations will take place at the president's General Secretariat, the presidential press office announced in a statement, Tanjug reports. Under the Serbian constitution, the candidate for prime minister is put forward to the National Assembly following president's meetings with representatives of all election lists. A new government will need the support of at least 126 deputies - and considering that the SNS-led list has 131, Aleksandar Vucic will have the opportunity to once again put together his cabinet. At this time it is unclear which other parties or coalitions might join in. Media speculated after the election that Nikolic will do away with the consul-

Ivica Dacic, Foreign Minister: We believe that the migrant crisis requires a resolved and coordinated response of all European countries. Serbia has been investing significant efforts to address the problem in the most humane manner

tations altogether, allegedly "to avoid a meeting with SRS leader Vojislav Seselj." Both Nikolic and Vucic were high-ranking members of the SRS before they broke away in 2008 to form the SNS. More confusion was caused by Nikolic's statement that he "thinks he won't even have to conduct consultations - considering it all depends on whether someone

Tomislav Nikolic, President: The signing and ratification of 32 Algerian-Serbian agreements as well as the preparation of seven others constitute a firm basis to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries

has secured 126 deputies to vote in favor of a government, and once there is evidence that they have, consultations are over and he gives the mandate." However, Nikolic is under constitutional obligation to hold meetings with representatives of all elections lists before announcing the candidate for Serbia's next prime minister.

Abdelmalek Sellal, Algerian Prime Minister: My country os interested in cooperation with Serbia in the field of agriculture, defense industry and new technologies, and Algeria could help Serbia in the field of energy stability


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