Ex-SNS official back in Radicals' fold

MP Božidar Delić has left the opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) to rejoin the Serb Radicals (SRS).

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Monday, 28.02.2011.

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MP Bozidar Delic has left the opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) to rejoin the Serb Radicals (SRS). SNS is an offshoot of the Radicals which is yet to take part in parliamentary elections. When in 2008 a group of MPs broke away from SRS, they formed their own parliamentary group, and a new party. Ex-SNS official back in Radicals' fold Delic, who was previously high in the SRS party hierarchy and was one of its founders along with Tomislav Nikolic, said he disagreed with its policy. The retired general will retain his position of one of deputy parliament speakers, and will now join the ranks of SRS MPs. Several months ago Delic was heard publicly criticizing SNS and leader Tomislav Nikolic, above all for his readiness to extradite Hague indictees and support EU integrations. Addressing reporters in parliament today, he said that the decision came because the party was a "fraud, where patriots and honest people stand no chance". He also said that in the past two and a half years he "never learned what the SNS program was", and that he was told this was because it was "written in English". "That means that the SNS program was not written in Serbia," Delic deduced. He described his now former party as one without ideas and infrastructure, "increasingly resembling a party in power", and said the only two patriotic forces in the country were SRS and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). Meanwhile, SRS MP Nemanja Sarovic called on other former party members to leave SNS and rejoin SRS, and described the departure of Delic as "the beginning of the end of SNS". Bozidar Delic (Tanjug, file)

Ex-SNS official back in Radicals' fold

Delić, who was previously high in the SRS party hierarchy and was one of its founders along with Tomislav Nikolić, said he disagreed with its policy.

The retired general will retain his position of one of deputy parliament speakers, and will now join the ranks of SRS MPs.

Several months ago Delić was heard publicly criticizing SNS and leader Tomislav Nikolić, above all for his readiness to extradite Hague indictees and support EU integrations.

Addressing reporters in parliament today, he said that the decision came because the party was a "fraud, where patriots and honest people stand no chance".

He also said that in the past two and a half years he "never learned what the SNS program was", and that he was told this was because it was "written in English".

"That means that the SNS program was not written in Serbia," Delić deduced.

He described his now former party as one without ideas and infrastructure, "increasingly resembling a party in power", and said the only two patriotic forces in the country were SRS and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

Meanwhile, SRS MP Nemanja Šarović called on other former party members to leave SNS and rejoin SRS, and described the departure of Delić as "the beginning of the end of SNS".

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