Goran Knežević the New Parliament Speaker?

Serbian Progressive Party deputy leader Goran Knežević will most likely be the new Serbian Parliament speaker, reports the daily Danas, citing well-informed sources close to the SNS leadership.

The party has assessed that it will be easier for Knežević to handle the now diverse opposition in the parliament.

As a former DS official he knows the Democrats well, the parties that emerged from the DS and specially Bojan Pajtić with whom he has an ongoing conflict.

In addition to this, it has also been estimated that, at the helm of the Serbian Parliament, the Progressives’ deputy leader would be in a better position to handle the Radicals’ leader Vojislav Šešelj than outgoing parliament speaker Maja Gojković.

The Republic Electoral Commission has to distribute seats to newly elected MPs by May 15 at the latest.

This will clear the way for an inaugural parliamentary session which is called by the speaker of the previous parliament, Maja Gojković.

The session is to be held within 30 days from the declaration of the final election results.

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Narodna skupština Republike Srbije

Goran Knežević

SNS

Vojislav Šešelj

Maja Gojković

DS