Yesterday, the mayor and the members of his cabinet held their first meeting where they agreed to finish the division of departments by Monday, and then wrap up talks on candidates for the new city secretaries and the directors of the city enterprises.

No-one wishes to mention any specific names for the time being, but the ruling parties—the Democratic Party, G17 Plus, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—claim that the top positions will be taken not only by party officials, but also by experts with no party affiliation.

According to the coalition agreement, half of the directorates should be given to non-party members, and that is the bulk of the work, as they will probably be selected at competitions. As concerns the party secretaries, there will be non-party people there too. B92 understands that some of them could be appointed next week, and no later than in the next fortnight.

In an interview with weekly Vreme, new Mayor Dragan Đilas said that the new leadership’s priority was to finished projects left over from the previous government.

These include the bridge at Ada Huja, while the Belgrade bypass, according to Đilas’s forecast, could be complete by mid-October.