Ilić announces presidential bid

Velimir Ilić said Wednesday local and presidential elections should be held in 2008, and announced he would run for president.

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Velimir Ilic said Wednesday local and presidential elections should be held in 2008, and announced he would run for president. “Keeping Kosovo is the number one state and national interest. Until that situation is solved, there will be no elections,” Ilic told daily Vecernje Novosti, though he did admit that elections must be called by the end of the year according to Constitutional Law. Ilic announces presidential bid Ilic , who is the leader of New Serbia, a party allied with the DSS, said that President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica needed to be "the leaders of the battle for Kosovo and should not be distracted by elections or campaigning." He added that it would be "logical for him to receive Kostunica’s support as a presidential candidate. " The DS-DSS-NS-G17 Plus ruling coalition, however, in March agreed that Kostunica’s second term as prime minister would mean support for Tadic's presidential bid. Speaking of the current crisis within the coalition, Ilic said that there were disagreements regarding elections and NATO membership, but that this would not effect the functioning of the cabinet and that there was no sign that the Democratic Party of Serbia and the Radical Party would join forces, though “that combination exists as well.” “We are asking Tadic to not form a coalition with the League of Social Democrats and Nenad Canak after the regional elections, for the sake of maintaining the coalition, because that is a separatist party that wants to break Serbia and Vojvodina up.“ "We cannot sit in government with a partner that is cooperating with separatists,” the infrastructure minister said, adding that the prime minister "shared his feelings." Shared feelings: Ilic, Kostunica in Guca (Beta)

Ilić announces presidential bid

Ilić , who is the leader of New Serbia, a party allied with the DSS, said that President Boris Tadić and Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica needed to be "the leaders of the battle for Kosovo and should not be distracted by elections or campaigning."

He added that it would be "logical for him to receive Koštunica’s support as a presidential candidate. "

The DS-DSS-NS-G17 Plus ruling coalition, however, in March agreed that Koštunica’s second term as prime minister would mean support for Tadić's presidential bid.

Speaking of the current crisis within the coalition, Ilić said that there were disagreements regarding elections and NATO membership, but that this would not effect the functioning of the cabinet and that there was no sign that the Democratic Party of Serbia and the Radical Party would join forces, though “that combination exists as well.”

“We are asking Tadić to not form a coalition with the League of Social Democrats and Nenad Čanak after the regional elections, for the sake of maintaining the coalition, because that is a separatist party that wants to break Serbia and Vojvodina up.“

"We cannot sit in government with a partner that is cooperating with separatists,” the infrastructure minister said, adding that the prime minister "shared his feelings."

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