Brnabic: New government soon, with about 50 percent women

Photo: Tanjug/Serbian government/Slobodan Miljevic

Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic told TV Pink's Hit Tvit show that a session of the SNS presidency will be held on Tuesday afternoon and that she believes there will be a new government in the shortest time possible.

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"I expect a very good government, which will have fantastic people. The key address will contain things that will clearly determine the things we want to do by 2025," said Brnabic.

As she says, there will most likely be about 50 percent women in the new cabinet, and two new ministries.

Brnabic pointed out that a huge responsibility is on their backs, as well as on the back of the president of Serbia, to continue the growth and even accelerate the development and progress of Serbia.

"No one has ever had such responsibility, that is, such trust of citizens. That is why we have to give even more than before, in order to justify that trust," said Brnabic.

Brnabic said that a never more serious fight against organized crime would be launched, and added that citizens would be able to see serious changes in that sense.

As she says, she feels stronger than she felt the previous time when she was entrusted forming and leading the government of Serbia. She added that it would not have been easy for anyone to take over the chair in which Aleksandar Vucic had sat until the day before.

"I thank the president for nominating me for prime minister, but also the SNS for the support in that. Now I feel much more comfortable and secure in that position," said Brnabic.

The issue of Kosovo and Metohija

The prime minister saod that the issue of Kosovo and Metohija is one of the biggest challenges, and the dialogue with Pristina, and that it is a question of our security and safety.

She stressed that Serbia has implemented everything agreed in Brussels and said that the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), which is an obligation of Pristina, must be formed as agreed, rather than as an NGO.

She said that there will be no further dialogue about the ZSO, and that it was disappointing that the EU, which, as she stressed, is the strategic goal of the new Serbian government, allowed the ZSO not to be formed as many as seven years after it was agreed on.

As she added, the norm of civilization and the red line s that if you negotiate and sign something, then you implement it.

Brnabic stressed that the issue of Kosovo and Metohija remains a question par excellence for the security of Serbia in order to avoid "someone some day, intentionally or accidentally, provocatively creating a situation of an armed conflict" as in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"We cannot allow that," said Brnabic and assessed that Serbia has much more to lose than Pristina.

"We are not a country that we were in 2014, but a country that will be a leader in Europe in terms of growth, unemployment is only 7.3 percent, we are recognized as a leader in digitization... We are a country with a growing SME sector, a country with strong partnerships and with more and more new partnerships," she said and added that we must jealously guard and balance these successes.

Pristina has not done much, said Brnabic and said that there is a catastrophe in Kosovo and Metohija with unemployment, crime, corruption...

"That is why I'm afraid that politicians, when they have no ideas, especially in this part of the Balkans, when they have no idea how to improve the quality of life, then they raise tensions."

(Telegraf.rs)