Post by radovic on Jan 29, 2008 10:40:15 GMT -5
DSS to be neutral
Kostunica not to support any of presidential candidates
Author: ‘Blic’ team | 29.01.2008 - 06:00
DSS leader and also actual Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is most likely not going to back Boris Tadic in the second round of presidential election. In the following days he shall only send a message to Serbia citizens by which he shall ‘call for election in a democratic spirit’, ‘Blic’ learns from high DSS source.
DSS spokesman Andreja Mladenovic said yesterday that in the following days DSS might send some message to the electors in Serbia who are to choose one of the two presidential candidates in the runoff on February 3. Mladenovic said at the press conference that DSS presidency would decide on the eventual message to the electors ‘in case of need’, i.e. depending on the reply by DS to DSS proposal over the annex to the coalition agreement referring to the EU.
Mladenovic does not expect that absence of declared DSS support and disagreement between the coalition partners over eventual signing of the agreement on stabilization and association with EU shall lead to crisis of the Government.
‘The offer (to DS) is on the table. We have done our part of the job and now we are expecting the others to say what they have’, Mladenovic said. He characterized the question of ‘responsibility’ in case of SRS presidential candidate’s victory as ‘hypothetical’.
The journalists asked why the annex to coalition agreement had been suggested between the two rounds of presidential election and not earlier, Mladenovic replied that ‘it cannot be waited for recognition of Kosovo independence to happen and that is why this is the right time for this stance’.
Prime Minister Kostunica said in his televised interview with the national television on Saturday evening that ‘it is to be said in advance that Serbia Government would proclaim null and void SAA if EU would send its mission in Kosovo and Metohija’.
When asked if he would feel responsible if Tadic would lose the presidential election, Kostunica replied that there were different losses ‘those in elections and those more serious, state losses such as loss of a territory by a state’.
Although Kostunica is avoiding to publicly support any of the two candidates, it is indicative that Milan Ivanovic, president of the Serbian National Council of the Northern Kosovo and Metohija and Kostunica’s political follower, yesterday called on Kosovo Serbs to vote for Nikolic because by that they ‘shall vote for survival of Kosovo and Metohija and within Serbia’.
President Boris Tadic told the young people in Serbia yesterday that on February 3 they would choose between European course that he was leading the country on and return into the time of the radicals, isolation and economic disaster.
NGO: Tadic to invite all for talk
A group of NGOs requested yesterday from Boris Tadic to clearly articulate the European course of Serbia and call for a talk all social factors that are his natural allies on that course.
‘Tadic’s insufficiently clear messages and concessions made to forces openly voicing opposition to Serbia’s integration with EU may lead to abstaining by those for European Serbia’, the appeal yesterday read to journalists by Biljana Kovacevic-Vuco, director of the Committee of lawyers for human rights says.
SPS to decide today
The Socialist Party of Serbia shall decide today at the presidency meeting whether it shall support any of the candidates in the runoff of presidential election. SPS presidential candidate Milutin Mrkonjic told ‘Blic’ that it was possible that SPS would choose not to support either Tadic or Nikolic. ‘SPS electors are wise enough to decide by themselves. I shall personally support that alternative. If someone addresses us for support we may take that into consideration, too’, he said.
Kostunica not to support any of presidential candidates
Author: ‘Blic’ team | 29.01.2008 - 06:00
DSS leader and also actual Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is most likely not going to back Boris Tadic in the second round of presidential election. In the following days he shall only send a message to Serbia citizens by which he shall ‘call for election in a democratic spirit’, ‘Blic’ learns from high DSS source.
DSS spokesman Andreja Mladenovic said yesterday that in the following days DSS might send some message to the electors in Serbia who are to choose one of the two presidential candidates in the runoff on February 3. Mladenovic said at the press conference that DSS presidency would decide on the eventual message to the electors ‘in case of need’, i.e. depending on the reply by DS to DSS proposal over the annex to the coalition agreement referring to the EU.
Mladenovic does not expect that absence of declared DSS support and disagreement between the coalition partners over eventual signing of the agreement on stabilization and association with EU shall lead to crisis of the Government.
‘The offer (to DS) is on the table. We have done our part of the job and now we are expecting the others to say what they have’, Mladenovic said. He characterized the question of ‘responsibility’ in case of SRS presidential candidate’s victory as ‘hypothetical’.
The journalists asked why the annex to coalition agreement had been suggested between the two rounds of presidential election and not earlier, Mladenovic replied that ‘it cannot be waited for recognition of Kosovo independence to happen and that is why this is the right time for this stance’.
Prime Minister Kostunica said in his televised interview with the national television on Saturday evening that ‘it is to be said in advance that Serbia Government would proclaim null and void SAA if EU would send its mission in Kosovo and Metohija’.
When asked if he would feel responsible if Tadic would lose the presidential election, Kostunica replied that there were different losses ‘those in elections and those more serious, state losses such as loss of a territory by a state’.
Although Kostunica is avoiding to publicly support any of the two candidates, it is indicative that Milan Ivanovic, president of the Serbian National Council of the Northern Kosovo and Metohija and Kostunica’s political follower, yesterday called on Kosovo Serbs to vote for Nikolic because by that they ‘shall vote for survival of Kosovo and Metohija and within Serbia’.
President Boris Tadic told the young people in Serbia yesterday that on February 3 they would choose between European course that he was leading the country on and return into the time of the radicals, isolation and economic disaster.
NGO: Tadic to invite all for talk
A group of NGOs requested yesterday from Boris Tadic to clearly articulate the European course of Serbia and call for a talk all social factors that are his natural allies on that course.
‘Tadic’s insufficiently clear messages and concessions made to forces openly voicing opposition to Serbia’s integration with EU may lead to abstaining by those for European Serbia’, the appeal yesterday read to journalists by Biljana Kovacevic-Vuco, director of the Committee of lawyers for human rights says.
SPS to decide today
The Socialist Party of Serbia shall decide today at the presidency meeting whether it shall support any of the candidates in the runoff of presidential election. SPS presidential candidate Milutin Mrkonjic told ‘Blic’ that it was possible that SPS would choose not to support either Tadic or Nikolic. ‘SPS electors are wise enough to decide by themselves. I shall personally support that alternative. If someone addresses us for support we may take that into consideration, too’, he said.