Oath of office

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic has called for Wednesday, May 1, a special parliament session at which MPs will elect the new Serbian government, with the PM and the members of his cabinet to take oaths of office.

According to an official statement, the session is scheduled to begin at 12 pm.

Judgment time is near for the jailed mayor-elect of the ethnic-Greek Albanian town of Himare, as the special corruption court responsible for hearing his case convenes on Tuesday to the crux of the matter. This means ruling on whether Fredi Beleri is guilty of vote-buying.

A special session of the parliament is scheduled for 11 a.m., and a special session of the Assembly will be attended by representatives of the Government of Serbia, Republika Srpska, judiciary, army and police, religious communities, as well as 75 representatives of the diplomatic corps. Before the inauguration, Vui addressed the gathered citizens.

He said that he is waiting for the answer of the lawyer whether he has to wait for the expiration of the first presidential term.
"Consultations on forming a new government will begin in the second half of May, or as soon as I take the oath of office for a new term in early June, lawyers are looking at the possibilities," he said.

According to the expert in constitutional law Prof. Plamen Kirov the decision to hold the first sitting of the 45th parliament in the old building is a good one. However, it is likely to spark controversy over where parliament should sit in principle.

Greece's parliament on Jan. 22 elected the first woman president in the country's history, a senior judge with an expertise in environmental and constitutional law.

A cross-party majority of 261 MPs voted in favour of 63-year-old Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, parliament chief Costas Tassoulas said.

On 13th of November, the newly elected constitutional judges solemnly took their oath of office, reports BNT. 

After the elections, Pavlina Panova and Nadezhda Dzhelepova received the support of their colleagues from the judges' quota of the Suptreme Judicial Council.

The new members of the government were sworn in on Wednesday afternoon, in a ceremony held in the presence of President Prokopios Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Twelve of the new ministers took a civil oath of office, while seven participated in a short religious swearing-in ceremony led by an Orthodox cleric.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic says Serb judges and prosecutors in Kosovo earlier this week did not take an oath of office in front of the president of Kosovo.

Instead they made a special, status-neutral statement, Brnabic said.

BELGRADE - Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday took his oath of office as president of Serbia.

He took the oath in the Serbian parliament, with his hand on the Serbian Constitution and a replica of Miroslav's Gospel.