June 5 (SeeNews) - Serbia's governing conservative party SNS said it has proposed to appoint surgeon Zoran Radojicic as new Belgrade mayor to replace Sinisa Mali who was elected minister of finance.
The Belgrade city parliament will vote on the appointment of Radojicic at a session on June 7, the chairman of the Belgrade unit of SNS, Nebojsa Stefanovic said in a statement late on Monday.
"We were interested in choosing the best team, we do not put the party interest in the first place, but the interest of the city," Stefanovic said during a news conference in Belgrade.
Serbia's parliament approved the appointment of Sinisa Mali to the position of finance minister last week as his mandate expired in May.
SNS won 64 of 110 seats in the Belgrade parliament in the local elections held on March 4, according to final official results.
Under the Serbian legislation, the mayor of Belgrade is elected by the members of the city parliament for a four-year term.
Radojicic, a general manager of Belgrade University Children's Clinic, is chairman of the Serbian expert committee for children's healthcare at the Ministry of Health. He is a member of the European Society for Paediatric Urology (ESPU), the European Society of Surgery (EUPSA), and the supervisory board of the budget fund for the treatment of diseases, conditions or injuries that cannot be successfully treated in Serbia.