Djenadic: Student List Has Several PM Candidates
Marko Djenadic told the Demostat podcast he would neither confirm nor rule out the names being speculated about, and named electing the ninth REM member the new majority's first priority.
Student List representative Marko Djenadic said in the podcast “Pola sata Demostata” (“Half an Hour of Demostat”), released on November 6, 2026, that the list has several candidates for prime minister but will not make the names public. The interview was led by journalist Tamara Bajcic. Djenadic, a student and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, neither confirmed nor denied the names being speculated about in public.
Demostat headlined the interview with the claim that the list has several candidates for both president and prime minister. The accompanying article says Djenadic spoke about several prime ministerial candidates, while he revealed no names for the presidential race. He also did not say whether one of those two offices is meant to go to a woman.
Why are the names not being published?
Djenadic judged that the tactic of withholding the names of parliamentary candidates proved successful, even though many criticized it, so it could continue. The criticism was that the list went a long time without naming its candidates for members of parliament. We reported earlier that the names of the ministers are still unknown.
The constitutive session and the transition period
The constitutive session of the National Assembly is convened by Ana Brnabic, within 30 days of the final announcement of the election results. The Student List, Djenadic said, hopes the session will be scheduled as soon as possible so that a government can be formed in less time than the law allows. The reason is practical: ministries have to be set up and the whole apparatus has to find its footing.
Until then the country is run by the caretaker government of Djura Macut. Asked whether the Student List relies on the goodwill of the defeated regime or has control mechanisms, Djenadic answered that it is in contact with employees in institutions who do not want to bear criminal responsibility, and that this is not goodwill but simply their job. On the government he said:
We have the caretaker government of Djura Macut, they are still under oath, they carry a degree of responsibility, and it is up to them to keep the state functioning.
Speaking about cases of destroyed documentation, he said there are photographs and video recordings, and that the documents have also been preserved in digital form. His assessment:
Destroying documentation is a criminal offense, but when evidence surfaces, we do see the prosecution and the police taking action
What does the new majority put first?
Among the priorities, Djenadic listed the prosecution and the courts, laws that give citizens a sense of security, energy security and the question of NIS, and the financial sector. First on the list is electing the ninth member of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM):
One of the priorities of the new parliamentary majority will be the election of the ninth REM member, so that this body can start to function, because that directly affects RTS and the television stations with national frequencies. Their work has so far not been controlled at all.
According to Demostat, the conversation also touched on laws the student movement had earlier announced would be among the first: the one on the origin of property and the one on a prosecutor’s office for fighting corruption. These were topics of the conversation, not priorities that Djenadic listed himself.
Public broadcasters and regime media
Media got the most room in the interview. Djenadic said regime media can be split into two categories: some have not reoriented and still shape the media picture through conspiracy theories and lies, while others pose as independent and slip disinformation in between the lines. He called the second group possibly the greater danger, noting stories that “slip in ideas that are very dangerous”: about instability, about a collapsed state, about calling on the army to react.
The Vojvodina public broadcaster apologized to citizens for incorrect reporting in the previous period. Djenadic thinks that was necessary, but not sufficient:
Media darkness has reigned here for too long. And public broadcasters fall into the third category, they played it by setting things up as if you are irrelevant. For two years they pretended the student movement did not exist, while we organized hundreds of thousands of people at Slavija, other rallies, actions, conferences… For people who watch only those channels, we were marginalized. Changes are needed there, but not so that they now become servile toward the new government, because that would again send the state toward ruin
The outgoing government and the formation of the new one
The interview also covered the role of trade unions, the time needed to dismantle a system built over years, and the strategy of the outgoing government, which presents itself as the opposition even though it still holds the levers of power. Djenadic closed with this message:
On one hand they accuse us of not wanting to form a government, even though that now depends more on them, and on the other hand they can hardly wait for that formation. One has to be careful here, watch their steps, because there is an element of treachery and there are elements of legitimate political action by someone who wants to return to power
The date of the constitutive session depends on Ana Brnabic and on the 30-day deadline, and until then the caretaker government of Djura Macut remains in place.
