Brnabic has three key messages regarding Serbia's new government: One concerns a future coalition

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Veliki Trnovac is the largest etnnic Albanian village in the south of Serbia and is located in the municipality of Bujanovac, about 20 kilometers south of Vranje.

It may seem for a moment that the beginning of this article has nothing to do with the headline, the Government of Serbia and the prime minister, but that is not the case, because the end of the election process in Serbia, the forming of the new Serbian Assembly, the president starting consultations with parliamentary parties and finally the new government of Serbia being formed all depend on this small settlement.

Yesterday, Prime Minister and Vice President of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Ana Brnabic sent three important messages during a press conference regarding the formation of the Government of Serbia. The main topic was the decision of the SNS Presidency about the candidate for the next mayor of Belgrade.

The first message was that the voting in Veliki Trnovac will probably be repeated. For the fourth time.

Parliamentary elections at polling station No. 6 at the Muharem Kadriu Elementary School have been held three times in less than two months. The April 3 elections were annulled following an appeal by the Albanian coalition filed with the Administrative Court, while the repeated voting was annulled after the SPS lodged a complaint. Voters in Veliki Trnovac went to the polls for the third time on May 27.

"Now you have endless complaints and the election process, with which the SNS has nothing to do. We have neither complained nor participated in it, and we cannot complete the election, the president cannot even start consultations with parliamentary parties on forming a government," Brnabic said, and recalled that election rules changed at the request of opposition parties.

She believes that the price of someone's irresponsible behavior is being paid today by all citizens of Serbia.

She reminded that the SNS adopted all but one proposal of the ODIHR, as well as all other proposals of those who wanted to speak (about election rules) with the mediation of MEPs.

The second message regarding the elections was that it seems like the president will not be able to start consultations on forming a government with parliamentary parties before the beginning of July.

"Elections will probably be repeated in Veliki Trnovec, so the president will not be able to start consultations on forming a new government before the beginning of July, although parliamentary elections were held on April 3," said Brnabic and stressed that Vucic, as he said earlier, wanted a government to be formed by the end of July.

The third message concerned a new ruling coalition at the state level. Asked whether the election of Nikola Nikodijevic from the SPS as president of the Belgrade City Assembly means that the Progressives and the Socialists will form the government at the state level, Brnabic said that it does not necessarily mean that the government will be formed in the same way.

"We said that one does not depend on the other. We said that we would work with people who want to support our vision of Belgrade and our vision of Serbia, so we'll see what will happen next regarding the composition of the government and the majority in the National Assembly," concluded Brnabic.

(Telegraf.rs)