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It seems that the president of Serbia made the new government according to the culinary recipe of the old housewives to prepare the minestrone soup: “Put everything you find in the house (of vegetables) in a sherpa.”
Photo: Media CenterThen, everything that was found in his “house”, the president put in the government to “screech”.
In promoting such a recipe, the proponent reluctantly admitted that his party’s staff base is quite modest and drab.
What nutritionists would say: good for digestion but no energy value.
The government has never faded, you can see it by its expiration date.
Most ministers already have a defined task to keep the working temperature reached over low heat and to act according to the already established rule – “as the boss says” – when making decisions.
Such a description of the minister’s job would be more in line with some dull times that are not overtaken by a pandemic and an economic crisis.
The new cabinet, headed by the former prime minister, has been armed “from scratch” and will mostly house ideal, impersonal and obedient figures whose broader scope could be a chief position in one of the state’s jurisdictions.
However, there is an interesting detail that reveals the essential impulses of the creators of the new cabinet.
The three ministerial positions in the economic sector of the government – economy, construction and field – show what the intentions of the president are with the economy and this government, which seems to be destined to play the role of a burning stick with no final effect.
The Minister of the Economy is a person who, in the opinion of the President, has proven his worth in the economy, that is, in the position of director of a state military factory.
This election for a major department of the economy suggests that the economic habitus of the president leans towards the state (open) model of the economy, so that in this “mode of ownership” the new minister will continue to recover the Serbian economy with methods that they revived the state military company as a “dragon woman”.
The choice of such a minister profile directly contradicts the advice given to Serbia by the head of the World Bank office in Belgrade, Stephen Ndegwa, on the same day that the president announced the names of future ministers.
Ndegwa suggested to the new government the continuation of reforms focused on small and medium-sized enterprises.
However, the one who could do something about improving the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises was not elected Minister of Economy, but proposed Minister of Construction.
This future Minister of Construction is a private entrepreneur and comes from a successful medium-sized family business (textile industry and tourism) that has been successfully surviving in the market for many years and has undoubtedly inherited the family business gene.
Whoever thought of the new Minister of Construction, he can be classified among the entrepreneurs of the younger generation with a respectable business record.
The only problem with your participation in government is that you will be in the wrong ministerial position.
“We gave him to take care of the business, of the business, of negotiating the next road construction works,” said the president.
If the president cared about reviving the Serbian economy on the basis of entrepreneurship, private property and the market, he would understand that the Ministry of Economy (rather than construction) “fits” much better with the young entrepreneur because he knows all the problems that private company owners have in business. participate in the creation of an economic environment that encourages private entrepreneurship.
On the other hand, if the Minister of Construction, Infrastructure and Transportation, according to the President, concluded interstate agreements of great economic value, then it was better for that department to be in debt to the person proposed for the Minister of Economy, because as director of a state-military company familiar with the operation of the state “business” and with the conclusion of high-value interstate agreements.
Did the state president make this “thesis replacement” and an unnatural combination intentionally or out of ignorance?
Of which there is no dilemma is the interesting third ministerial position.
The president proposed a retiree coalition partner for the minister who will develop the Serbian village. money (of which he boasts) without having paid the invoice so far for the effects of those investments.
The only drawback of this concept is the belief of the President of Serbia and the future minister that only the state is invited and is able to make the peasants happy without asking for costs, tolerating the lack of transparency in the distribution of aid and not measuring the effects.
The author is a journalist
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