"Dacic wans to find out if early elections will be held"
"It is normal to talk with coalition partners in an election year - elections are the subject of talks with the SPS," an SNS vice president has said.
Tuesday, 05.01.2016.
09:37
"Dacic wans to find out if early elections will be held"
The Serb Progressive Party (SPS) on Monday issued a statement announcing, with no further details, a meeting with their coalition partners the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).The paper said it could not learn from the SPS what the party "expected from the meeting with the SNS."
It was told unofficially by the Socialists that it should be left to the leaders, Dacic and Vucic, to communicate what they talked about and that it makes sense for the parties to comment on the meeting after it takes place, "depending on what the leaders will announce as common guidelines."
President of another SNS coalition partner, the Movement Socialists, Aleksandar Vulin, also requested a meeting with Prime Minister Vucic and the Progressives, but is yet to receive a date for it.
After the meeting of the SPS presidency two weeks ago, Dacic, who serves as the country's foreign minister, said publicly he would invite Vucic to an urgent meeting to discuss and reach an agreement "on cooperation in the coming years, in the interest of Serbia and its future."
As he pointed out, relations and cooperation between the SPS and its coalition partner PUPS and JS with the SNS are "of key importance for Serbia's stability and future."
Vucic then said he was surprised that Dacic used the media as a channel to invite him to such a meeting and said he would accept, noting he did not know what the SPS leader wanted to talk about.
Asked whether he was satisfied with the cooperation with the SPS, Vucic said that he was "always dissatisfied only with himself."
He then added: "Everyone was working well, everyone will get popular assessment. And if they did not work well, they will receive popular assessment, as well as the many who think they are working extraordinarily - and we'll see what the people will say. I must be that the people is the supreme judge."
"I know that many do not like it when one mentions the noun 'the people', but I just love it. There. To spite those who do not like to hear the people."
"Dacic is aware that Vucic determines political processes in the country. He will probably want to get definitive answers from the prime minister about whether there will be early parliamentary elections together with provincial and local. Whether he should put the party machinery in motion, or not...," political analyst Dejan Vuk Stankovic told the newspaper.
He noted that it became clear in recent days that the Socialists will not participate in elections together with the Progressives, in case of early parliamentary elections - that is, certainly not in provincial polls.
"However, alliances between the SPS and the SNS are possible at local levels, there's no question," said he.
Stankovic thinks it can be expected that today's meeting will conclude an agreement on how to avoid "discussions" between parties in the future.
"Vucic and Dacic could reach an agreement on avoiding polemics, negative relations in the coalition. This could be not only the reason for the meeting but also its outcome. We heard from SNS Vice President Zorana Mihajlovic that the SPS is the only possible ally of the Progressives, so I think the conversation will go in the direction of strengthening this attitude," he concluded.
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