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 served as a transitional government handling only technical issues until the new government was finally formed in May 2007.

This government of Serbia consisted of four political parties - DSS (10 seats), G17+ (4 seats), SPO-NS (7 seats) (and their subsidiary parties) and it had the support of one more - SPS the party of former President, Slobodan Milošević.

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[edit] Head of Government

[edit] Ministers

[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 concerned her interference into the Biology schoolbook contents when she demanded evolution part to be equalized 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 government 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.

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