Maja Gojkovic becomes candidate for parliament speaker

BELGRADE - Official and MP Maja Gojkovic of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has become a candidate for the speaker of the Serbian parliament.

The proposal to make Gojkovic a parliament speaker candidate was signed by 30 members of the parliament.

Parliament General Secretary Jana Ljubicic told Tanjug that the proposal had arrived at the secretariat and would be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday. The proposal was filed by SNS as the party that won 158 out of the total 250 MP mandates in the early parliamentary elections on March 16.

It is the only proposal so far, Ljubicic noted adding that candidates for the office of deputy speaker would be discussed later.

Gojkovic is a member of the SNS Presidency and she held office as the mayor of Novi Sad from 2004 to 2008.

Gojkovic entered politics as a member of the People's Radical Party which joined the Serbian Radical Party and after the split in the party in 2009 until 2012, she held office as the leader of the People's Party (NP).

In 2010, NP joined the union of theUnited Regions of Serbia and on the party's list, Gojkovic was elected as one out of two NP MPs in May 2012. In late 2012, she went on to join SNS.

The parliament will elect the speaker, deputy speakers, general secretary and working bodies on Wednesday. The meeting on April 16 was used to verify the mandates of all the members, thereby constituting the parliament.

According to the parliament book of regulations, the parliament speaker nominations must be filed by at least 30 MPs.

The parliament establishes the number of deputy speakers at the parliament speaker's proposal and at least 30 MP signatures are needed to nominate one or several deputy...

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