If we exclude Ivica Dačić as the political figure with the longest tenure in power in recent history, few can compare with the Minister of Mining and Energy and Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Zoran Mihajlović. However, the difference between Dacic and Zorana Mihajlović is great: while he is often prone to humble behavior towards the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, she has managed to survive in every government despite the fact that it is difficult to list ministers, prime ministers, coalition partners and other important figures from the SNS with whom she did not enter into an open conflict. Perhaps the only one with whom she has not clashed over anything is Aleksandar Vučić.
The latest attacks on Zoran Mihajlovic that come from the ruling circles go in two directions: because she made a statement to the newspaper "Nova" and because she said how good it was that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov did not manage to come to Serbia because no country did not allow crossing over her territory: "If they are our friends, as they say they are, then they shouldn't have planned to come at this moment, not to go to the extreme of saying that they should have asked us to impose sanctions on them." I think it is good that the Russian minister did not come to visit Serbia now, and we have to think about our way forward, and Serbia has clearly decided on the path to the EU, which was also said by President Vučić", Minister Mihajlović told Juronujz, when asked that commented on the cancellation of Lavrov's visit...
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