"Normal service to resume in parliament"

SPS official Branko Ružić is sure the parties will reach the minimum consensus necessary to unblock parliament’s work.

Izvor: Dnevnik

Saturday, 16.08.2008.

14:42

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SPS official Branko Ruzic is sure the parties will reach the minimum consensus necessary to unblock parliament’s work. The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) whip told daily Dnevnik that failure to do so would do Serbia great harm, because a string of important agreements were still to be ratified, including the energy deal with Russia, the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), a number of credit agreements, while a resolution still needed to be passed on continuing the state policy on Kosovo. "Normal service to resume in parliament" “There’s no doubt that we’re in the middle of an intense debate on every item on the agenda, but it's ludicrous not to even move on to the agenda just because someone wants to bring Serbia to a standstill,” said Ruzic. He said that he hoped that “MPs will manage to treat the parliament’s work more seriously, failing which, the citizens, as the best judges, will be able to penalize those that are responsible.” Commenting on the fact that other than the Democratic Party (DS), none of the SPS’s other coalition partners wished to sign the declaration of reconciliation, the SPS whip said that declaration had been drawn up exclusively by the DS and SPS, and that only after signing would any of the other parties be invited to add their signature. “None of those partners have even seen the text, and I’m sure that no relevant political party in Serbia will be able to have anything aginst the declaration’s actual contents. The only thing that might bother them is the identity of the initiators, but that’s their problem, not ours,” said Ruzic. He pointed out that the declaration was a vision of cooperation and the government’s future work, of how the state should look in future, and was based on values that were common to the DS and SPS and on the ideology that promoted a modern, economically progressive country and a socially just society that would lead Serbia forward. Branko Ruzic (FoNet, archive)

"Normal service to resume in parliament"

“There’s no doubt that we’re in the middle of an intense debate on every item on the agenda, but it's ludicrous not to even move on to the agenda just because someone wants to bring Serbia to a standstill,” said Ružić.

He said that he hoped that “MPs will manage to treat the parliament’s work more seriously, failing which, the citizens, as the best judges, will be able to penalize those that are responsible.”

Commenting on the fact that other than the Democratic Party (DS), none of the SPS’s other coalition partners wished to sign the declaration of reconciliation, the SPS whip said that declaration had been drawn up exclusively by the DS and SPS, and that only after signing would any of the other parties be invited to add their signature.

“None of those partners have even seen the text, and I’m sure that no relevant political party in Serbia will be able to have anything aginst the declaration’s actual contents. The only thing that might bother them is the identity of the initiators, but that’s their problem, not ours,” said Ružić.

He pointed out that the declaration was a vision of cooperation and the government’s future work, of how the state should look in future, and was based on values that were common to the DS and SPS and on the ideology that promoted a modern, economically progressive country and a socially just society that would lead Serbia forward.

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