Consultations: Insults, grounds for cooperation, more talks

Consultations: Insults, grounds for cooperation, more talks

He said that Vucic told him that Serbia is making progress and that he is having difficulties with forming a government, adding that he also spoke about the rule of law.

Radulovic said he then attempted to hand to Vucic a lawsuit he filed against him two years ago, and that Vucic immediately responded with insults, calling him a thief and a liar.

Radulovic, a former cabinet minister, said he filed the complaint against Vucic for his statement that he, while serving as minister, "gave BIRN reporters the contract between Jat Airways and Etihad."

Tanjug is reporting that Radulovic then "again refused to respond to questions from Pink and Studio B reporters, branding them a part of Vucic's propaganda team."

He added that Enough is Enough representatives gave Vucic a copy of "The Money Squandering Machine" - a book written by the movement's deputy leader Dusan Pavlovic that Radulovic said identifies Serbia's problems - and presented a 20-point program.

"Basis for cooperation"

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will be the most efficient support to anyone who wants to strengthen the European policy in Serbia, but it does not necessarily have to be in the government, LDP leader Cedomir Jovanovic said Tuesday.

"If you are asking me if I am closer to joining the government, I am telling you totally honestly that, at this moment, the LDP's obligation is to tell both the head of the government to be elected and the ruling coalition that we will be the most efficient support to anyone who wants to strengthen the European policy in the country, solve Serbia's problems with Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, make a difference between the relations with Europe and Russia in favor of the EU, and has the strength to overcome divisions in society," Jovanovic told reporters after consultations on the new government with Prime Minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic.

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) leader Nenad Canak said after Tuesday's consultations that the LSV will not be joining the new government but that he came to hear what Vucic had to say about the country's future.

Specific matters and the compositions of the national government and the government of the Vojvodina province were not discussed, and will be addressed in the next consultations, "in seven to 10 days," Canak told reporters.

"We were presented with an optimistic picture of economic development and it would be good if half of that were achieved," said Canak, who was accompanied at the meeting by Liberal Democratic Party leader Cedomir Jovanovic.

The fundamental principles and the systems of values are very close and can be a basis for cooperation, Canak said.

The obligation of every responsible person is to do everything that is possible to stabilize society, because we do not need new conflicts in Serbia and we agreed on that, Canak said.

"Fierce opposition"

The Dveri Movement will not be a part of the new government, but "fierce but constructive opposition," Dveri leader Bosko Obradovic said on Tuesday after consultations on the new government with Prime Minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic.

He told reporters after the meeting that the presented to Vucic Dveri's ten-point agenda for the future of Serbia.

Dveri's policy revolves around the family policy, Obradovic said, noting that he informed Vucic that the country needs a ministry of family welfare and that fighting low birth rates must be the top priority.

The Dveri movement is also an advocate of protection for over-indebted families and agricultural development, he said.

"Whoever implements these measures will have our support," Obradovic said.

Vucic on Tuesday also met with representatives of the SPS-JS coalition, Ivica Dacic and Dragan Markovic, and with SRS leader Vojislav Seselj. Vucic, who said he was satisfied with the talks, will continue his consultations by meeting with minority parties.