When Vučić shuffles the cards: Concentration or, after all, the Government of Loyalty?



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The turnover of ministers, the tendency to introduce non-partisan personalities, but also some of the ranks of the opposition to the public, are mostly not new. Although the government, according to previous announcements, has its own expiration date, it is not impossible to achieve results if clear goals are set, some analysts believe. However, the question is whether that will actually be the case.

For some, the biggest news is the role of the Socialist Party of Serbia in the new government, which had five ministries in the previous call, and now only two. That may be related to the foreign policy aspect, believes Bojan Klačar.

“There has been a lot of talk about the so-called Russian map, which was important in the executive branch and was mainly related to the good relations between the SPS and official Moscow. If you look at the structure of this government now, you can see that some trump cards important were in favor. “In fact, there is no longer a Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was important to the SPS, and also crucially, this time the large Ministry of Energy belonged to the SNS,” says Bojan Klačar of CeSid.

The prime minister-designate can set concrete proposals and expectations of the government in the next year and a half, says Zarko Korac. However, he does not see ministers who can achieve such goals. Some personnel decisions surprised him.

“The Minister of Economy, when I saw him only in some social networks, he tweeted where he insulted the workers and where he said, basically, that they are lazy people who do not deserve this money they receive … And he was against the minimum … In any In a country with strong unions, that man could never be the Minister of the Economy, and in this government there is a trick game: now he is the Minister of Defense, now he is the Minister of Police, these are quite different places. .. There are many people who, apart from loyalty to the president of the SNS, that is, now the president of the state, did not really qualify for anything, “he said. Retired professor at the Žarko Korać Faculty of Philosophy.

However, she is not surprised by the proposal that Gordana Comic, a former Democratic Party official, be Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue. He says that Vučić wants to show his desire for all segments of society to be included.

“It only interests me, since I see on social networks, with many personal insults, which I never accept, that is not the way to treat anyone, I see terribly negative reactions. Now she needs to lead a social dialogue. Social dialogue is on this side that it is now: the government, the SNS, the government and opposition parties, the NGOs, I don’t know how it can mediate that dialogue when this side, to which it has belonged for more than 20 years, is in fact. rejects so vehemently, “says Korać.

Vučić shuffled the cards again and responded to the expectations he had set for himself on election night, Klačar believes: “He said the government would be such that some people who were not even on the Serbian Progressive Party list would participate in it. , and that there will be non-partisan figures in it, which means that it continued to rotate ministers and rotate departments, as has been the case in more or less all governments since 2014 ”.

The government is a great bait for several people, even when it is objectively known that it will not be able to do anything within that government, says Zarko Korac.

Concentration or government of continuity: these are the names that marked the new cabinet of Ana Brnabić even before its formation. And we found out 126 days after the elections to know the names of the ministers, despite the fact that the ruling party obtained a strong majority.



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