Dinar, Energy, Budget: The Student List’s 30- and 100-Day Plan

The Student List has begun to say in more detail what it would do in power. Radomir Saičić, a chemistry professor at the University of Belgrade and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, described the plan in an interview with the weekly NIN, republished by B92 on 2 November.

The first 30 days

The early priorities are about stability rather than reform: keeping the dinar exchange rate stable, paying salaries and pensions on time, and securing energy supply, including oil, gas and the running of the power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije. Saičić said delegations would go to Washington, because of the expiry of the US decision temporarily suspending sanctions on the oil company NIS, and to Moscow to negotiate gas supplies. The 2027 budget would be adopted with changed spending priorities and more transparency.

The first 100 days

The second phase targets what the movement calls the decriminalisation of the state: a review of projects declared to be of public importance, restructuring of state institutions and companies, stricter anti-corruption enforcement, closing firms that gained their position illegally, and recovering illegally acquired assets of officials and party financiers.

Within a year

Reform laws are promised in telecommunications, insurance, aviation, bank fees and retail, tax, anti-corruption and securities. Longer-term goals include digitalisation, bringing diaspora scientists and entrepreneurs into projects, and research-driven high-tech companies.

The list has not yet named a prime minister or ministers. Its media team has said that people are already being considered, both from the electoral list and outside it.