Ana Brnabić seeks dialogue with Student List before constitutive session
The acting speaker and acting president asked Student List to notify parliamentary services so leadership posts and committee assignments can be settled before the inaugural meeting.
Ana Brnabić, who currently serves as speaker of the Serbian parliament and is acting president of the country, said no one representing the Student List has contacted parliamentary services to start talks ahead of the Assembly's constitutive session scheduled for 17 November.
Call for early consultations
Brnabić urged the Student List to open a dialogue with parliamentary staff so arrangements for leadership posts and committee chairs can be clarified before lawmakers meet. She said the timing is important because decisions about vice-presidential posts and committee leadership are normally settled prior to the inaugural meeting.
"Until now, the governing majority always offered the opposition vice-presidential positions, various opposition groups decided accordingly whether there would be five or six vice-presidents, most often that was the case, but this needs to be discussed before the constitutive session," she said.
Brnabić also noted that these consultations traditionally take place shortly after the vote. She recalled that since 2012, when the Serbian Progressive Party won power, it has been customary to first ask the opposition whether it is interested in leading certain parliamentary committees.
The speaker’s remarks come as parties and new parliamentary groups prepare for the first session on 17 November; Brnabić framed her appeal as a procedural step to ensure the Assembly can be constituted smoothly.
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