Cabinet expected by May, unclear who will join

Cabinet expected by May, unclear who will join

BELGRADE -- SNS leader Aleksandar Vučić said after his party's landslide election victory that a government will be formed by May 1, and that he will "talk with everyone."

His party has an absolute majority, and only the coalitions led by the SPS, the DS, and the NDS, along with three minority lists, crossed the five-percent threshold.

The Socialists (SPS) are seen as "the first partner" in a future cabinet. SPS leader Ivica Dačić said last night that "the new majority" would have 200 to 210 MPs. He was at the SNS headquarters late on Sunday where he and Vučić spoke - though, as Dačić stated, "not about a new government."

"I came to congratulate Aleksandar Vučić on a historic result, and my coalition, too, reached a historic result. The SNS and the SPS are parties from the existing government and will work until a new one is formed," he said.

As far as the Democrats (DS) are concerned, their campaign was partly based on the message that they are "the only ones who surely will not make a post-election coalition with the Progressives." Democratic Party leader Dragan Đilas said after the first results arrived last night that "now the struggle for democracy begins."

"I wish to Serbia that the SNS fulfills its promises made in the campaign, but our belief is that, unfortunately, Serbia with such a majority will not be even close to what has been promised. Time ahead of us will show that, "said Đilas.

Ever since Boris Tadić broke away from the Democrats to form his NDS party, it has been speculated that it was set up with some type of agreement between him and Vučić concerning the country's next government. The former president of...