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Exactly 100 days have passed since the parliamentary elections in Serbia. During that time, elections were held in the region, new governments were formed, and Serbia is still run by a government with a technical mandate. Who will sit in the ministerial seats for now is just a matter of speculation. Meanwhile, everyone repeats that a single man’s decision is awaited.
On the day that Serbia received the official results from the Electoral Commission of the Republic, elections were held in Croatia and that country obtained the government after 17 days. North Macedonia won the government two weeks after the elections. Montenegro elected deputies a month ago and ten days later a coalition agreement was signed on the principles for the formation of a new government and the president of the assembly was elected.
One hundred days after the elections and more than 50 days after the constitution of the Assembly, Serbia is without a new government. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić personally announced that he would be in formation at the end of September.
“I hope that we will also intensify that formal work, and I believe that we will elect the government before the end of the month,” Vucic said on September 12.
September is coming to an end and the next few days are crucial, at least according to new announcements from the Serbian president.
“He will get a president in the next few days. There will be three … But certainly less than seven,” Vucic said.
During that time, calculations on training dates, but also personnel decisions. Tanjug says that the Assembly session in which the new leadership should be elected could be held on October 7-8.
“I really don’t know who the designated prime minister will be, and it would not be appropriate for me to talk about what my ideas would be. I think that is completely irrelevant until the name of the designated prime minister is known,” Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said.
“Večernje novosti” announces personnel changes in the security sector. Thus, according to the wording of that list, the people who still lead those departments would rotate to three positions, Minister of Defense, Minister of Police and Director of the BIA.
Ivica Dačić says it’s up to Vučić to design the kind of government he wants, and that the two will meet this week.
“I communicate with President Vučić every day, because we are working on these state affairs … These are not issues … Will we be in government, how many ministries will we have, who will be what and so on? My relationship with Vučić is changing. It never reduced it to that, “says Dacic.
While a person makes decisions about personnel decisions, unfavorable reports arrive about the state of democracy in Serbia. An analysis by the V-Dem Institute in Gothenburg describes Serbia as an “electoral autocracy”. It is ranked 139th out of 179 countries and thus “scored” the worst in the Western Balkans.
The reasons, as has been said, are the state of the media, “reduced space for the work of civil society and academic institutions”, and “concerns about the quality of the electoral system.”
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