Vucevic: We want new gov't, list of candidates for PM-designate down to two names

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Milos Vucevic said on Thursday the party and its coalition partners in the most recent elections wanted to see a new government formed rather than early elections and that their list of candidates for PM-designate was now down to two names.

"Within 24 hours, or 36 hours at the latest, I will inform the president of the PM-designate - of who the person we think should be given the mandate by the president is," Vucevic told reporters after consultations with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

There is a parliamentary majority and the "legal and legitimate conditions" are in place to elect a new government in the parliament by the legal deadline of April 18, he said.

He said the PM-designate would be picked by the SNS party bodies.