PM Designate Vucevic to present programme Wednesday, gov't to have eight new ministers

BELGRADE - Serbia's PM Designate Milos Vucevic announced on Tuesday he would request a parliament session for Wednesday, May 1, to present his government's programme and work plan to MPs and propose the cabinet members.

Speaking to reporters after a session of the Presidency of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, Vucevic said his cabinet would include eight new names and that as many as ten ministers would be women.

He said the proposed cabinet members were Sinisa Mali (first deputy PM and finance minister), Ivica Dacic, (deputy PM and minister of interior), Irena Vujovic (deputy PM and minister of environmental protection), Aleksandar Vulin (deputy PM), Aleksandar Martinovic (minister of agriculture and water management), Goran Vesic (minister of construction, transport and infrastructure), Dubravka Djedovic-Handanovic minister of energy and mining), Tomislav Momirovic (minister of internal and external trade), Maja Popovic (minister of justice), Jelena Zaric-Kovacevic (minister of public administration and local self-government), Tomislav Zigmanov (minister for human and minority rights and social dialogue), Bratislav Gasic (minister of defence), Marko Djuric (minister of foreign affairs), Tanja Miscevic (minister of European integration), Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic (minister of education), Zlatibor Loncar (minister of health), Nemanja Starovic (minister of labour, employment and veteran and social affairs), Milica Djurdjevic-Stamenkovski (minister of family welfare and demography), Zoran Gajic (minister of sport), Andrijana Mesarovic (minister of economy), Nikola Selakovic (minister of culture), Milan Krkobabic (minister of rural welfare), Jelena Begovic (minister of science, technological development and innovation), Husein Memic (minister of tourism and youth), Dejan Ristic (minister of information and telecommunications), Darko Glisic (minister for public investments) and Novica Toncev, Djordje Milicevic, Usame Zukorlic, Nenad Popovic and Tatjana Macura (ministers without portfolio).