Ana Brnabić

She was Prime Minister of Serbia from 2017 to 2024 and has been President of the National Assembly since March 2024. Wikipedia reports that she has been acting President of Serbia since 28 September 2026, after Aleksandar Vučić resigned. She is named in the race for the next Prime Minister of Serbia in 2026.

Career

Brnabić was born in Belgrade on 28 September 1975. She studied business administration at Northwood University in Michigan and took an MBA at the University of Hull. She worked for over a decade with international organisations, investors and local governments in Serbia, directed Continental Wind Serbia and chaired the managing board of NALED. She became Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in 2016, Prime Minister on 29 June 2017 and stayed on after the 2020 and 2022 elections until 6 February 2024. She joined the SNS in 2019, became its vice president in 2021 and was elected President of the National Assembly on 20 March 2024.

Positions

Wikipedia says Brnabić describes herself as pro-European and technocratic, with modernisation, education reform and digitisation as priorities. It says critics characterise her governments as conservative and nationalist, and that political scientists and opposition figures describe her as dependent on Aleksandar Vučić, whom she has called her mentor. She is described as the first openly gay head of government in Serbia; same-sex marriage remains constitutionally banned. Wikipedia places the SNS, her party, in different positions from centre-right to centrist, calling it a catch-all party.

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