LDP: Too early for elections

LDP leader Cedomir Jovanovic says new elections should not considered until after visa liberalization, unfreezing of the SAA and applying for EU membership. “Elections should be called after visa liberalization, which we expect at the beginning of next year, the unblocking of the SAA and gaining EU candidate status, when we will ask the electorate for their unambiguous support for European policies that the government would implement,” the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader told the Tanjug agency. LDP: Too early for elections Stressing that elections must be the product of an agreement that does not call the country’s European aspirations into question, he said elections now would bring nothing new. “The government has not finished its project, the nationally-oriented opposition does not offer any alternative, but calls for a return to the past, while the LDP at this moment in time, because of a lack of understanding, does not have enough support to implement any fundamental reforms in the country,” he said. “Faster and stronger connections with Europe are needed for society to understand the importance and benefit of change in real life ,” Jovanovic said. The LDP leader said that Serbia needed an effective executive government, not an ineffective one that did not respond to the problems of its citizens and constantly offered internal indecision and rifts. Jovanovic said that the ruling coalition was compromising itself “to such a degree where not even the LDP will be able to give it a firm guarantee for its survival.” He said that the goal of the LDP was to steer the government in a direction that would guarantee the attainment of European goals and values, while staying mindful of society’s needs. Jovanovic said that the LDP was prepared to work with the government to address the biggest problems Serbia faced, but there must be a clear plan of economic measures, not simply “political cosmetics.” “There must be changes in the political priorities of society, we must dedicate ourselves to political reforms that will create room for economic transition, which Serbia is implementing sloppily,” the LDP leader said, adding that this was the prerequisite for the government receiving his party’s support for transforming the country. Cedomir Jovanovic (FoNet, archive)

LDP: Too early for elections

Stressing that elections must be the product of an agreement that does not call the country’s European aspirations into question, he said elections now would bring nothing new.

“The government has not finished its project, the nationally-oriented opposition does not offer any alternative, but calls for a return to the past, while the LDP at this moment in time, because of a lack of understanding, does not have enough support to implement any fundamental reforms in the country,” he said.

“Faster and stronger connections with Europe are needed for society to understand the importance and benefit of change in real life ,” Jovanović said.

The LDP leader said that Serbia needed an effective executive government, not an ineffective one that did not respond to the problems of its citizens and constantly offered internal indecision and rifts.

Jovanović said that the ruling coalition was compromising itself “to such a degree where not even the LDP will be able to give it a firm guarantee for its survival.”

He said that the goal of the LDP was to steer the government in a direction that would guarantee the attainment of European goals and values, while staying mindful of society’s needs.

Jovanović said that the LDP was prepared to work with the government to address the biggest problems Serbia faced, but there must be a clear plan of economic measures, not simply “political cosmetics.”

“There must be changes in the political priorities of society, we must dedicate ourselves to political reforms that will create room for economic transition, which Serbia is implementing sloppily,” the LDP leader said, adding that this was the prerequisite for the government receiving his party’s support for transforming the country.