Daily: DSS threatens alliance with Radicals

Tensions have increased between the two main parties of the ruling coalition regarding the coming elections.

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Thursday, 13.09.2007.

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Tensions have increased between the two main parties of the ruling coalition regarding the coming elections. Daily Blic writes that Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has told the Democratic Party (DS) that unless elections are held in the spring, they will either boycott the vote or offer support to the Serb Radical Party (SRS). Daily: DSS threatens alliance with Radicals Blic writes that the only answer from the Tadic's Democrats, who adivise elections by the end of the year, is that, “Constitutional Law will be respected.” The issue of elections is further complicated by the fact the parliamentary parties must agree on Constitutional Court candidates, lucrative posts in the managing boards of Serbia's public enterprises, and even the makeup of the State Electoral Commission, where the DSS, Radicals and Socialists hold the majority at present. "Only when all that is settled the date for the elections will be known. The fact that the DSS is in no hurry makes the chances that the vote will be held by the end of the year slim," a government source told the daily. The ruling coalition, made up of the DS, as the party with most parliamentary seats, the DSS-NS, and G17 Plus, was put together at the eleventh hour just over three months ago, when the legal deadline for forming a cabinet was about to expire. The decision to grant the DSS premiership, although the party came in third in the ballot, was balanced by an agreement that Kostunica's party would in return support Tadic's bid to be reelected as president, in a vote to be called by the end of 2007. The unity of the parties that found it difficult to form a coalition in the first place has recently been further tested with their opposing visions regarding Serbia's Euro-Atlantic integration. However, their unified position on the ongoing process of determining the future status of Kosovo shows no cracks, with consistent messages coming both from prime minister's and president's offices insisting on Serbia's right to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the province. Unresolved Kosovo status has been cited as precisely the reason why presidential and local elections ought to be postponed, despite a clear legal deadline of December 31. Kosovo keeps coalition together? Kostunica, Tadic (FoNet, archive)

Daily: DSS threatens alliance with Radicals

Blic writes that the only answer from the Tadić's Democrats, who adivise elections by the end of the year, is that, “Constitutional Law will be respected.”

The issue of elections is further complicated by the fact the parliamentary parties must agree on Constitutional Court candidates, lucrative posts in the managing boards of Serbia's public enterprises, and even the makeup of the State Electoral Commission, where the DSS, Radicals and Socialists hold the majority at present.

"Only when all that is settled the date for the elections will be known. The fact that the DSS is in no hurry makes the chances that the vote will be held by the end of the year slim," a government source told the daily.

The ruling coalition, made up of the DS, as the party with most parliamentary seats, the DSS-NS, and G17 Plus, was put together at the eleventh hour just over three months ago, when the legal deadline for forming a cabinet was about to expire.

The decision to grant the DSS premiership, although the party came in third in the ballot, was balanced by an agreement that Koštunica's party would in return support Tadić's bid to be reelected as president, in a vote to be called by the end of 2007.

The unity of the parties that found it difficult to form a coalition in the first place has recently been further tested with their opposing visions regarding Serbia's Euro-Atlantic integration.

However, their unified position on the ongoing process of determining the future status of Kosovo shows no cracks, with consistent messages coming both from prime minister's and president's offices insisting on Serbia's right to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the province.

Unresolved Kosovo status has been cited as precisely the reason why presidential and local elections ought to be postponed, despite a clear legal deadline of December 31.

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