PREUGOVOR ALARM: REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF SERBIA IN CLUSTER 1 May 2024
PREUGOVOR ALARM: REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF SERBIA IN CLUSTER 1 May 2024

Author(s): Jelena Pejić Nikić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: PREUGOVOR; EU; CLUSTER 1; Serbia
Summary/Abstract: The period covered by this Report – from November 2023 to April 2024 – was marked by the extraordinary parliamentary and local elections, which caused the Government to spend this entire time in a technical mandate. As Serbia had three parliamentary elections in the last five years, such a situation didn’t seem unusual. As a consequence of the above, and since each time institutions were formed right before the expiry of the statutory deadline, the country did not have a fully operational executive branch of power for almost two years. In all this time, however, the dominance of the ruling party was stable and not even the Prime Minister was changed until May 2024. The new Prime Minister assembled the largest cabinet to date – 25 line ministers and five ministers without portfolios, as well as one Deputy Prime Minister without a ministerial position – and announced the “Government of Continuity”.

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