Government of Serbia (2004-2007)
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Government of Serbia under Vojislav Koštunica as the Prime Minister was formed on March 3, 2004. After Serbian parliamentary election, 2007 this cabinet is serving as a transitional until the new one is formed.
The government of Serbia consistes of four political parties - DSS (10 seats), G17+ (4 seats), SPO-NS (7 seats) (and their subsidiary parties) and it has support of one more - SPS the party of Slobodan Milošević who ruled the party from the Hague at ICTY prison until his death in 2006.
Cabinet:
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[edit] Head of Government
- Ivana Dulić-Marković - Deputy Prime Minister - resigned on October 1
- Dejan Mihajlov - Secretary-General
[edit] Ministers
- Velimir Ilić - Minister of Capital Investment - (incorporated Ministries of Urbanism and Construction, Traffic and Communication)
- Mlađan Dinkić - Minister of Finance - resigned on October 1
- Zoran Stojković - Minister of Justice
- Dragan Jočić - Minister of Interior
- Predrag Bubalo - Minister of Economy
- Zoran Stanković - Minister of Defence
- Slobodan Lalović - Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Affairs
- Goran Živkov - Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management (appointed in June, 2006) - resigned on October 1
- Radomir Naumov - Minister of Energy and Mining
- Milan Parivodić - Minister of International Economic Relations (appointed in October, 2004)
- Bojan Dimitrijević - Minister of Trade, Tourism and Services
- Slobodan Vuksanović - Minister of Education and Sport (appointed in October, 2004)
- Zoran Lončar - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
- Dragan Kojadinović - Minister of Culture
- Aleksandar Popović - Minister of Science and Environmental Protection
- Tomica Milosavljević - Minister of Health - resigned on October 1
- Milan Radulović - Minister of Religion
- Vojislav Vukčević - Minister of Diaspora
- Vuk Drašković - Minister of Foreign Affairs
[edit] Former Members
Ljiljana Čolić was forced to leave the position of Education and Sport Minister in 2004 after she made several controversial decisions. These decisions conserned her interference into the Biology schoolbook contents when she demanded evolution part to be replaced with creationist theory. Dragan Maršićanin, former Minister of Economy, resigned hoping to become the president, however he finished in disappointing fourth place in the elections. After that he was sent to Switzerland as an ambassador. Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus resigned on his position on May 3, 2006 after the EU froze talks with Serbia on accession. Labus was the head of the EU accession team but the governmemnt failed to arrest Ratko Mladić, which was the principal condition of the EU to further pursue talks with Serbia.
Ivana Dulić-Marković had resigned from the position of Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management on June 15, 2006, as she had been nominated to become the new Deputy Prime Minister, the position she was elected for on June 20, 2006.
All Ministers, members of G17+ party, resigned on October 1 due to the fact EU stopped the accession negotiations with Serbia. These ministers are Ivana Dulić-Marković, Mlađan Dinkić, Goran Živkov, Tomica Milosavljević. These resignations will be effective after the session of parliament and the parliament will probably not have any further sessions before elections, which are now inevitable as the Government does not have the support of the Parliament.
[edit] Post-independence restructuring
After the independence referendum in Montenegro, the government of Serbia-Montenegro is to be dissolved. The Government of Serbia is to be restructured, so that it incoporates the Serbia-Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence, as Serbia is the successor state of the State Union. The Serbia-Montenegro Ministry of Human and Minority Rights will be incorporated into the current Serbian Ministry of Justice. The restructuring is scheduled to take place after June 12.
A vacant position of Deputy Prime Minister, since the resignation of Miroljub Labus, was taken by Ivana Dulić-Marković, former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. She was replaced in her current position with Goran Živkov). The Socialist Party of Serbia announced that they will not support the appointment of Drašković and Dulić-Marković but changed their minds on the voting day. The proposed Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs is Vuk Drašković, who is currently the Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister. The proposed Serbian Minister of Defence is Zoran Stanković, who also holds that position in the State Union government. The Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Drašković's party, has agreed to give the position of the Minister of Culture to G17+ which means that Dragan Kojadinović is also set to leave the government. He is most likely to be replaced with Nebojša Bradić, the current head of the Belgrade Drama Theatre and the member of G17 Plus. There have been rumours that Nebojša Čović will be elected as a second Deputy Prime Minister, the position he also held, in the Serbian Government, under Zoran Đinđić prime ministership between 2001 and 2003. He has neither confirmed nor denied this.
There have been reports that the main restructuring might be postponed until September when the all institutions of Serbia and Montenegro must be split into separate Serbian and Montenegrin ones.
