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  • Four months after elections Serbia's parliament voted in a new cabinet on Wednesday, hailing its high level of gender-balance though critics derided the move as an attempt to "pinkwash" an increasingly authoritarian leadership. The June poll, which was boycotted by the main opposition camp, dramatically expanded the dominance of President Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive (SNS) party, which has been in power since 2012. They effectively now face no opponents in parliament, aside from a small number of minority lawmakers. Women hold half the portfolios in the new cabinet, putting it among the few gender-balanced governments in the world. At the helm for a second time is incumbent Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, who became the first openly gay woman to lead the Balkan country in 2017. "I am proud of the fact that... eleven women that will lead among the most complex departments, facing the biggest challenges", she said in a speech laying out the new government's goals. However, critics have argued that the make-up of the cabinet is of little importance as long as Vucic is pulling the strings. The president, who holds what is supposed to be a ceremonial post, is accused of wielding a strongman's sway over the country's democratic institutions and the media. Despite holding the most influential position in the country, Brnabic herself has called Vucic the "boss". Jovana Gligorijevic, a member of the advocacy group Journalists Against Violence Towards Women, called the greater representation of women in the cabinet "a classic case of pinkwashing" -- a practice of promoting progressive ideas in order to overshadow illiberal ones. Gligorijevic told AFP that it doesn't matter "whether women, men, Klingons or Hobbits" sit in the cabinet as long as Vucic is in charge. "The idea that the position of women in Serbia will improve due to the number of female ministers, or that a new paradigm will be created, is equally ridiculous and sad", she added. Women are underrepresented in politics, but the gender breakdown of the new Serbian government is merely "faking democracy", said Jelena Djordjevic, a political science professor in Belgrade. "Women are necessary in political life, but because they are competent, and not just for filling a quota like this", Djordjevic told AFP. Citing years of democratic backsliding under Vucic's rule, the US-based monitor Freedom House said it now categorises the country as a "hybrid regime" rather than a democracy. mbs/ssm/pvh
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  • Serbia votes in gender-balanced cabinet, critics decry 'pinkwashing'
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