Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic appointed Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to lead the next cabinet in a sign of continuity after their party won a significant majority earlier this year.
The appointment will put Brnabic in charge for a third term, one where she’ll face a host of challenges, including an energy crunch and mending ties with Kosovo. She will also have to navigate pressure over Serbia’s balancing act between the European Union and Russia.
“I have great confidence in Ana. She is enormously loyal to her country,” Vucic said in Belgrade on Saturday. His Serbian Progressive party won by a landslide in the April ballot, when he also secured a second term as president. Still, Brnabic may be replaced in a 2024 government reshuffle by the ruling Progressive Party, Vucic said, without elaborating.
