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Urgent: Serbian parliament elects gov't of PM Vucic

Xinhua, August 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Serbia's parliament voted on Tuesday for the election of a new government presided by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

The new government, elected with 163 out of 250 MP votes, consists of ministers from the ruling coalition around Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party and the smaller partner Socialist Party of Serbia Ivica Dacic.

Summarizing the program of the government at the beginning of the parliament session on Tuesday, Vucic promised MPs that the new government will close all 35 chapters of the EU negotiations before the end of the four-year mandate.

The new government will have four deputy prime ministers and consists of 16 ministries. Endit