Two of the most powerful figures in Serbia who are on the US blacklist will be part of the new Serbian government.
Aleksandar Vulin, a former director of the Serbian Security and Information Service /BIA/, will be deputy prime minister, future Prime Minister Milos Vucevic of the Serbian Progressive Party /SPP/ announced today, proposing a new cabinet with 25 ministries. The minister without portfolio will be Nenad Popovic, also sanctioned by Washington.
In 2023, he will be appointed president. Aleksandar Vulin was blacklisted by the US for illegal arms trafficking, corruption and conducting Russian interests in the Balkans, and within the same year he was awarded the Order of the Russian Federation, personally by the director of the Russian Federal Security Service and a general in the Russian army, Aleksandar Bortnikov. Vulin, until recently the head of the BIA, has been described as the right-hand man of President Aleksandar Vucic.
The defense minister will be Bratislav Gasic. Foreign Minister - Marko Djuric - Belgrade's former ambassador to the US, Politika newspaper reported.
The Covenanters Party, which is a coalition partner of the SPP, will head the Ministry of Family Care and Demography with Minister Milica Djurdjevic Stamenkovski.
Former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defense Nemanja Starovic will be Minister of Labor. Darko Glisic becomes minister of public investment and Dejan Ristic minister of information.
Serbia's parliament will hold a session to elect the new government tomorrow at 12:00 local time.
Full composition of the government proposed by Milos Vucevic:
Ministry of Health - Zlatibor Loncar
Ministry of Culture - Nikola Selakovic;
Ministry of Agriculture - Aleksandar Martinovic;
Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government - Jelena Zaric Kovacevic;
Ministry of Economy - Adriana Mesarovic;
Ministry of Finance - Sinisa Mali;
Ministry of Ecology - Irena Vujovic;
Ministry of Energy - Dubravka Jedovic Handanovic;
Ministry of Justice - Maja Popovic;
Ministry of Construction - Goran Vesic;
Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade - Tomislav Momirovic;
Ministry of European Integration - Tanja Miscevic;
Ministry of Education - Slavica Djukic Dejanovic;
Ministry of Science - Jelena Begovic;
Ministry of Rural Care - Milan Krkobabic;
Ministry of Human and Minority Rights - Tomislav Zigmanov;
Ministry of Sport - Zoran Gajic;
Ministry of Tourism and Youth - Hussein Memic;
The other four ministers without portfolio are Nenad Popovic, Novica Toncevic, Djordje Milicevic, Usame Zukorlic and Tatjana Matsoura. / BGNES
