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Today is the session of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and after that, everything will finally be known: who will be the new ministers, who will lead which departments and when there will be no more in the new Serbian Government.
After 10 o’clock, when the SNS, headed by President Aleksandar Vučić, will make the final decision on the new ministers in the Serbian Government, all doubts must be removed.
Until that happens, the speculation remains, but there are some things that are already true.
One of them is that the new government, headed by Ana Brnabic, will have 21 ministries. Although this Draft Law on Ministries has not been formally approved, it will happen tomorrow, so there are no more dilemmas in this regard.
Nor should there be a dilemma about certain ministerial positions, although the media these days have been speculating about possible candidates, departments, changes in them, division and introduction of new ministries.
From the BIA to the Ministry of Justice
According to information from “Blic”, what is very certain is that changes are coming in the department of justice.
As we announced exclusively, the new person will be the head of the Ministry of Justice, and it is Maja Popović, a lawyer, who comes to this position from the Security Information Agency (BIA).
He will succeed Nela Kuburovic in this position, for whom it is not yet known whether he will remain in the ministry he headed, or perhaps assume the new role.
Maja Popović will be one of 11 women in the new Serbian Government, has learned “Blic”.
New and old faces
According to information from “Blic”, Gordana Comic, a former DS deputy, who will likely be in charge of the new ministry, for human and minority rights and social dialogue, should also be among them.
A new person could be a member of the crisis staff and the deputy director of the “Trampoline” Institute, Darija Kisić Tepavčević, who is speculated to possibly head the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans Affairs and Social Affairs. However, this information has not yet been confirmed.
Also unofficially, Ivena Vujevic, the current president of the municipality of Savski Venac, could move to Nemanjina 11 “from the neighborhood”, and it is written that she could be entrusted with the department of ecology and environmental protection.
According to information from “Blic”, the current Minister of Health, Zlatibor Lončar, who will continue to lead the Ministry of Health, does not have to worry.
Rotations
There will be a rotation in the new Serbian government, and today it will be known exactly how and how it will be.
For now, it is mentioned that Ministers Nebojsa Stefanovic and Aleksandar Vulin could replace the departments, so Vulin will join the Interior Ministry, and Stefanovic will defend himself.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić also suggested that Nebojsa Stefanović would take care of security a few days ago, saying that Stefanović led the police well and would continue to deal with “important security sector matters”.
Rotations, this time between coalition partners, SNS and SPS, are also taking place in other fields. One of them is diplomacy, which, according to the media, could be led in the future by Nikola Selaković, former Minister of Justice and current Secretary General of the President of Serbia.
He will therefore take over control of the ICJ, which has so far been led by SPS leader Ivica Dacic, who took over as the Speaker of the Serbian Assembly just days ago. This is how the SNS got the ICJ and the Socialists got the parliament.
The replacement could also occur with energy and construction, which until now has been led by Aleksandar Antic (SPS) and Zorana Mihajlovic (SNS). As is speculated, he could return to his old ministry: energy, which he already ran, while Antic could own the building in the new division.
New ministry, old minister
Among the three ministries that did not exist so far, will be the Ministry of People’s Care, which could be headed by the former minister without portfolio, Milan Krkobabic.
In the previous weeks, the media wrote that the “dragon woman”, director of “Prva petoletka” and one of the most successful managers in Serbia, Andjelka Atanaskovic, could take over the economics department.
Furthermore, in the unofficial division, the department of culture and information will be headed by the current speaker of parliament, Maja Gojković, for whom it has been written for some time that she is interested in this ministry.
The Minister of Finance, as things stand now, should remain Sinisa Mali.
In Nemanjina 11, the media also saw Suzana Grubjesic (former URS) as the EU Minister Tatjana Matic in the tourism department, and it is not ruled out that Marija Obradovic (SNS) will join them.
Reform the government
As the President of Serbia and SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić said a few days ago, there is a dilemma about two or three names.
– We only have two, three, maybe four doubts. There will be non-partisans and personalities from other parties. That will be good government, Vucic told reporters on Tuesday.
According to him, the new Government of Serbia will be of a fixed duration, that is, it will last less than a year and a half. This means that in 2022 we will have general elections, at all levels: presidential, parliamentary, local and municipal.
– This will be a reform government at a difficult time. That is why it is of limited duration, so that no one can relax. This is the “trick of rehearsals” for what is to come – added Vucic.
Three new ministries
What is certain for now is that Ana Brnabić’s new team will have 21 ministries, including three new ones: the Ministry of Rural Care, the Ministry of Family and Demography, and the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue.
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