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Serbia's next PM promises key structural reforms by mid-July


    BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's likely next prime minister pledged on Monday to reform labour laws and bankruptcy and privatisation legislation by mid-July at the latest, after his centre-right party won a snap election.

    Aleksandar Vucic, leader of the Progressive Party, which won a clear parliamentary majority in the weekend poll, told reporters that, "as far as I am concerned", 29-year-old Lazar Krstic would remain as finance minister.

    Serbia is seeking to rein in its budget deficit and public debt and secure a new precautionary loan deal with the International Monetary Fund.

    (Reporting by Ivana Sekularac; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Catherine Evans)