Serbian Progressive Party

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will hold consultations on the formation of the new government on Thursday, April 17 and Tuesday, April 22, with the representatives of electoral lists that gave MPs for the new parliament makeup.

BELGRADE- The Collegium of the Serbian parliament discussed on Wednesday the idea of changing the speaker of the parliament each year for the next four years, but none of the participants took a clear stance on the issue, so the talks will be completed on Monday.

BELGRADE - Nenad Canak, leader of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), said on Wednesday that the annual rotation of the parliament speaker's post is a completely new idea, noting that there are arguments for and against it, and that it should be considered more carefully.

BELGRADE - The new Serbian parliament was constituted on Wednesday as the MPs took the oath of office after their mandates were approved.

The parliament speaker, the deputy speaker and the members of parliamentary bodies will be elected at a session scheduled for April 23.

A vote last week in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE, condemning Russian actions in Ukraine has caused divisions in Serbia, especially within the opposition Democratic Party.

BELGRADE- The Serbian Progressive Party's (SNS) presidency reached a decision Monday to create a coalition government with the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) and to let SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic conduct talks with other parties about possible expansion of the ruling coalition.

Nikola Selakovic, vice-president of Belgrade’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, told a conference of the Serb Democratic Party, SDS, in Bijeljina on Sunday that it had his backing ahead of polls due in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October this year.

BELGRADE - Companies without any market prospects will be shut down, with a redundancy program for the employees, as there is no more money in the budget to fund them, said Milenko Dzeletovic, coordinator of the Serbian Progressive Party's (SNS) Economic Council.

The authorities in Belgrade have opposed the practice of Russian Gazprom, owner of a 56% stake in Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), pocketing the entire profit of the company.

Aleksandar Vucic, First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, noted that the company had reached a profit of EUR 380 largely thanks to Serbian oil, not extraordinary managerial achievements.

BELGRADE – The position of mayor of the city of Belgrade will be taken by either Sinisa Mali, current president of the interim authority in the Serbian capital, or Nikola Selakovic, outgoing Serbian minister of justice, Serbian Progressive Party leader Aleksandar Vucic has said for Belgrade-based newspaper Politika.