LDP leader criticizes president’s decision

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cedomir Jovanovic criticized Sunday President Boris Tadic’s refusal to sign program “Serbia to Europe - Europe to Serbia”. The declaration was drafted together by the LDP and the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO). LDP leader criticizes president’s decision The document calls for changes in Serbia's policy toward Kosovo and continuation of the European integrations. ”Tadic is seriously wrong if he is calling a reasonable proposal extremism and doubting our patriotism,” the LDP leader said in a written statement. He called on the president on Saturday to sign the document but Tadic refused and explained that he did not agree with renouncing of the state and national interests. Jovanovic said that Serbia did not have any more time to lose and that the signatories of the declaration were “the bravest representatives of the civil society, indisputable authority of our intellectual, artistic, media and public life”. “With our clear position we are standing up to the political hypnosis which is diminishing the real importance of Europe for Serbia. That is why we are bringing together all those who are in favor of Serbia in Europe and are refusing to withdraw before anti-European usurpers of our future,” he stressed in the statement. The LDP leader stressed that “there would be nothing left of Serbs and Serbia in Kosovo” if Serbia did not get the EU candidate status on December 9 and added that “taking away the European future from Serbia means pushing it into self-isolation”. Jovanovic pointed to the difficult social situation in the country – poverty, unemployment, low incomes, small number of investments, poor education system and emigration of young people and stressed that all this could not be mitigated by “illusions about Kosovo”. “That is not an image of our abilities but a price of the wrong policy in the country whose president is Tadic. The price will additionally grow and it will crush Serbia if we do not turn the policy around,” he explained. The LDP leader added that the signatories of the document wanted a country “of changed priorities, a country of free citizens that has finally found peace with itself and its neighbors, a society ruled by the law and efficient institutions, a community which appreciates and encourages knowledge, work and success, develops competition and opens up the economy and modernizes everything that is backward”. Cedomir Jovanovic

LDP leader criticizes president’s decision

The document calls for changes in Serbia's policy toward Kosovo and continuation of the European integrations.

”Tadić is seriously wrong if he is calling a reasonable proposal extremism and doubting our patriotism,” the LDP leader said in a written statement.

He called on the president on Saturday to sign the document but Tadić refused and explained that he did not agree with renouncing of the state and national interests.

Jovanović said that Serbia did not have any more time to lose and that the signatories of the declaration were “the bravest representatives of the civil society, indisputable authority of our intellectual, artistic, media and public life”.

“With our clear position we are standing up to the political hypnosis which is diminishing the real importance of Europe for Serbia. That is why we are bringing together all those who are in favor of Serbia in Europe and are refusing to withdraw before anti-European usurpers of our future,” he stressed in the statement.

The LDP leader stressed that “there would be nothing left of Serbs and Serbia in Kosovo” if Serbia did not get the EU candidate status on December 9 and added that “taking away the European future from Serbia means pushing it into self-isolation”.

Jovanović pointed to the difficult social situation in the country – poverty, unemployment, low incomes, small number of investments, poor education system and emigration of young people and stressed that all this could not be mitigated by “illusions about Kosovo”.

“That is not an image of our abilities but a price of the wrong policy in the country whose president is Tadić. The price will additionally grow and it will crush Serbia if we do not turn the policy around,” he explained.

The LDP leader added that the signatories of the document wanted a country “of changed priorities, a country of free citizens that has finally found peace with itself and its neighbors, a society ruled by the law and efficient institutions, a community which appreciates and encourages knowledge, work and success, develops competition and opens up the economy and modernizes everything that is backward”.