Popovic: No constitutional obstacles to electing Brnabic parliament speaker

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Maja Popovic dismissed on Monday as untrue and malicious claims that there are constitutional obstacles to Ana Brnabic's candidacy for, and election as, new parliament speaker.

Popovic was responding to law professor Tanasije Marinkovic, who has said that Brnabic, as PM, could not be an MP at the same time, let alone parliament speaker, and that she should immediately resign as MP.

Popovic said such a "perverse" interpretation of the law jeopardised the constitutionally guaranteed right of all eligible Serbian citizens to be elected MPs.

"Consciously or not, Professor Marinkovic is neglecting the fact that the term of the Government of Serbia, which is currently headed by Ana Brnabic, has ended following the November 1, 2023 dissolution of the parliament, as prescribed by Article 128 of the Constitution of the Republic of...