Serbia's newly elected parliament will hold its first sitting on Tuesday, 17 November, the outgoing speaker Ana Brnabić announced on Sunday. The session, the constitutive sitting of the 15th convocation of the National Assembly, will begin at 10:00 in Belgrade.

The sitting opens with the confirmation of MPs' mandates. Its six-item agenda also covers the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers, the appointment of a Secretary General, and the election of members of working bodies and of permanent delegations to international parliamentary institutions. Until a new Speaker is chosen, the session will be chaired by the oldest MP, Professor Stojan Radenović.

The session was called after the Republic Electoral Commission adopted its total report on the election results on 5 November and allocated all 250 mandates the following day. The new Assembly must be constituted within 30 days of the proclamation of the final results, meaning by 5 December at the latest. Once at least 167 of the 250 mandates are confirmed, the Assembly is constituted and the mandates of the previous convocation end.

The Student List — Students Are Winning holds 140 of the 250 seats after the 25 October snap election, ahead of Aleksandar Vučić — United Serbia on 103, with five national minority lists sharing the remaining seven. The Assembly must then elect a Government within 90 days of being constituted; if it is constituted on 17 November, that deadline falls on 15 February 2027. A government needs the support of 126 of the 250 MPs, a threshold the Student List clears on its own.

The sitting also matters for the presidency. Since Mr Vučić resigned on 27 September, the Speaker of the National Assembly has acted as President of the Republic. When the old convocation's mandates end, that duty passes to the newly elected Speaker. The presidential election itself has not yet been called; under the constitution it must be called by 27 November and held no later than 27 December 2026.

Read the full announcement from CRTA.