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The Government of the Republic of Serbia (Vlada Republike Srbije) is the main element of the executive branch of government in Serbia.

It is led by the Prime Minister (Predsednik Vlade), commonly abbreviated to premier (premijer). Prime Minister is chosen by the National Assembly. Ministers are nominated by the Prime Minister and chosen by the Parliamnet.

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Current Government

The current Serbian government was formed on March 3, 2004 with the appointment of Vojislav Koštunica as the Prime Minister. The government of Serbia consists of four political parties- DSS (10 seats), G17+ (3 seats), SPO-NS (6 seats) (and their subsidiary parties) and it has support of one more - SPS the party of Slobodan Milošević who ruled the party from the Hague at ICTY prison until his death in 2006.

Cabinet:

Head of Government

Ministers

Temporary Ministers (45 days after 5 June 2006):
Former Members
Ljiljana Čolić was forced to leave the position of Education and Sport Minister in 2004 after she made several controversial decisions. These decisions conserned her interference into the Biology schoolbook contents when she demanded evolution part to be replaced with creationist theory. Dragan Maršićanin, former Minister of Economy, resigned hoping to become the president but he finished in disappointing fourth place on the elections. After that he was sent to Switzerland as an ambassador. Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus resigned on his position on May 3 2006 after the EU froze talks with Serbia on accession. Labus was the had of the EU accession team but the governmemnt failed to arrest Ratko Mladić which was the main demand of EU to continue the talks with Serbia.

Ivana Dulić-Marković resigned on the position of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Minister on June 15, 2006, as she was proposed to become the new Deputy Prime Minister, the position she was elected for on June 20, 2006.

Post-independence restructuring

After the independence referendum in Montenegro, the government of Serbia-Montenegro is to be dissolved. The Government of Serbia is to be restructured, so that it incoporates the Serbia-Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence, as Serbia is the successor state of the State Union. The Serbia-Montenegro Ministry of Human and Minority Rights will be incorporated into the current Serbian Ministry of Justice. The restructuring is scheduled to take place after June 12.
A vacant position of Deputy Prime Minister, since the resignation of Miroljub Labus, was taken by Ivana Dulić-Marković, former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. She was replaced in her current position with Goran Živkov). The Socialist Party of Serbia announced that they will not support the appointment of Drašković and Dulić-Marković but changed their minds on the voting day. The proposed Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs is Vuk Drašković, who is currently the Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister. The proposed Serbian Minister of Defence is Zoran Stanković, who also holds that position in the State Union government. The Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Drašković's party, has agreed to give the position of the Minister of Culture to G17+ which means that Dragan Kojadinović is also set to leave the government. He is most likely to be replaced with Nebojša Bradić, the current head of the Belgrade Drama Theatre and the member of G17 Plus. There have been rumours that Nebojša Čović will be elected as a second Deputy Prime Minister, the position he also held, in the Serbian Government, under Zoran Đinđić prime ministership between 2001 and 2003. He has neither confirmed nor denied this. There is a proposal to break up the Ministry of Capital Investment into several smaller ministries which existed prior to being amalgamated in 2004.

There have been reports that the main restructuring might be postponed until September when the all institutions of Serbia and Montenegro must be split into separate Serbian and Montenegrin ones.

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