SDPS

An electoral coalition at all levels between the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has been confirmed.

SDPS leader Rasim Ljajic announced this after his meeting on Sunday with SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic.

Govt. seeks to criminalize participation in wars abroad

BELGRADE -- The government will discuss amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that would treat participation of Serbian citizens in wars abroad as a criminal act.

Serbian Minister of Trade and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajić announced this in an interview for the Belgrade-based daily Danas.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday Serbia was not involved in the conflict in Ukraine and added that Serbian citizens who got paid to take part in the hostilities were hurting Serbia.

BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament has so far fully constituted 12 of a total of 19 of its committees in the new session.

One committee has still got no chair, one does not have deputy chair, and four committees currently have neither chair nor deputy chiar.

BELGRADE - Setting up working bodies and standing delegations to international parliamentary institutions marked the end of the constitution of the Serbian National Assembly on Thursday, and a new session is about to start to discuss amendments to the laws on government and ministries, whose passage is a prerequisite for forming a new government.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament elected six deputy speakers on Wednesday in a roll-call vote, following the election of Maja Gojkovic, an MP of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), for speaker.

Serbian parliament to have six deputy speakers

BELGRADE -- The new Serbian parliament will have six deputy speakers - two of whom will come from the Serb Progressive Party (SNS).

The Democratic Party (DS), the New Democratic Party (NDS), the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) will have one each.

BELGRADE - The leaders and deputies of most of eleven MP groups in the new parliament have been chosen after the constitutive session of the Serbian parliament on Wednesday.

As Tanjug was told at the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Zoran Babic will again lead the party's MP group in the parliament, with Maja Gojkovic as his deputy.

"Parliament to have MPs from 7 lists, in 12 clubs"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's new parliament, elected on Sunday, will have MPs from seven electoral lists - and they plan to form 12 "deputy clubs."

LESKOVAC - Leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday that a new government will be formed shortly after early parliamentary elections set for March 16, so that essential reforms could be continued.