Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić instructed 41-year-old Ana Brnabić, who has held the post of Minister of State and Local Self-Government since 2016, to form a government.
Her candidacy and the new composition of the government must be approved by the parliament, in which Vučić's supporters and his party's coalition partners have a majority.
Brnabic will be the first woman to head the government of Serbia and the first person in this position to openly declare his homosexuality.
Among the tasks of the new head of government, Vucic called "further strengthening of Serbia's position in the international arena" - both "on the path of European integration" and in relations with Russia and other countries, RIA Novosti . reports