Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik has nominated incumbent RS prime minister Zeljka Cvijanovic to continue in the position, and to form an entity government later this month. The nomination comes after a period of uncertainty as to whether or not the PM’s SNSD party and its coalition controlled enough seats in the RS National Assembly to form a government.
“I expect that we will be in a position for Ms. Cvijanovic to come up with a new cabinet in the period between the 15th and 20th of December already,” said Dodik.
Cvijanovic will be holding talks with potential ministers to fill 16 cabinet positions.
“The new government will work on the strengthening of Srpska in the political and economic sense and will be there for citizens and other partners,” Cvijanovic said.
At a press conference on Sunday, PM Cvijanovic said that she would work to form a government as quickly as possible, “so that Srpska could enter a new calendar and budget year without delays, problems and postponements.”
“The new Cabinet, just like the present one, will be at the disposal of citizens and all social partners. We will have to complete in the coming period the jobs that we have begun,” Cvijanovic said.
She said that the new Cabinet will add new priorities to the existing list of priorities, such as social sensitivity, which has already been demonstrated and which will be a characteristic of the new Cabinet as well.
“We managed in difficult and complex circumstances to demonstrate social sensitivity by increasing pensions and wages, to complete some projects, students’ dormitories, the housing programme for families of fallen soldiers and military war invalids and to intervene and demonstrate that we are people’s government when the people needed this,” Cvijanovic said.
