Serbian president: Prime minister-designate to be announced in about 12 days

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that the name of prime minister-designate who will form the new government will be known very soon - in about 12 days.

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The president also stressed that once it is known who will get the mandate to form the next government, the government will be formed very quickly.

He said this after a tour of the final works on the Belgrade Tower, when a journalist asked how close he was to naming the PM-designate and when the new government will be formed.

Vucic also referred to speculation that appeared in the media that the new PM will be Finance Minister Sinisa Mali:

"They wrote that it will be Sinisa Mali, since this was announced by a member of the government who thought he should be the prime minister, because he saw the biggest competition in Sinisa Mali," said Vucic.

Vucic added that the press reported Mali was already writing his keynote address (as PM) and revealed that after that news, Minister Mali jokingly sent him a message from the pool saying, "look how good my keynote is."

The president said that such news items are untrue and described them as "nonsense," asking citizens not to read such things.

(Telegraf.rs)