DS leader: This is not new, but reshuffled cabinet

DS leader: This is not new, but reshuffled cabinet

BELGRADE -- Dragan Đilas said in parliament on Sunday that Aleksandar Vučić did not present a new, but rather "a reshuffled government."

The head of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) spoke ahead of the election of Vučić's cabinet.

According to Đilas, this coalition government is a result of compromise, while "great powers influenced its formation, so all the power will be in the hands of the next prime minister."

Đilas told reporters in the Serbian parliament that he expects the coalition government will be reshuffled in a year.

"In the new government, the offices have been swapped between leader of the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) and next prime minister Aleksandar Vučić, who has so far been the first deputy prime minister, and leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Ivica Dačić, and previous energy minister and new transport minister Zorana Mihajlović (SNS) and previous transport minister and new energy minister Aleksandar Antić (SPS), and all this could have been done without the recent snap election," according to him.

"It is evident that great powers influenced the formation of this government and that compromises were made which will not be good for the country," he said.

Đilas said that it is no good that ministers in economic departments have no experience in the real sector of the economy.

"And that is felt in the proposed measures, the dominant measure being to sell out everything that Serbia has," Đilas said, speaking about the expose that the prime minister-designate presented to MPs earlier today, and noted that there are no novelties in the program of the new government, and described it...