"Nikolić losing control of Radicals"

Poor Toma, he can go overboard, but he's not really such a bad soul.

We saw the beginnings of this when Maja Gojkovic told him that it was time to reform the party. He reportedly agreed that reform was necessary, but not yet - Seselj would not allow it. At the same time Seselj told Toma that Gojkovic must be expelled from the party. Toma brokered her silence, hung on to both of them for a few weeks then finally Seselj insisted she had to go. How useful she (as formerly the most popular and senior radical) would be to him now!

Then you had the public humiliation of Nikolic when Kostunica stabbed him in the back by not appointing him parliamentary speaker.

Finally you had Kostunica and Seselj going behind his back to give Kostinica the Prime Minister spot without Nikolic's knowledge.

But Toma is stuffed now. I'm afraid he might just decide it isn't worth it and just to leave politics. I'm sure he would not want to be seen to be disloyal by founding another party, but it looks as if he is now in the minority.

One can only imagine what a Kostunica / Nikolic / Seselj government would have been like...

Anyway I think that Nikolic deserves to lead SRS and deserves to reform the party - he gave that party its best ever result, not Seselj. It saddens me to think that ordinary members are disrespecting Nikolic and might be laughing behind his back even if I don't agree with SRS policies.

I guess now would be a good time to find out if SRS really is a serious political party with the interests of Serbian citizens at its heart, or whether it's just a Seselj fan club.

I bet nobody has the 'courage' to find out.

This is bunk.

On the same day that the B92 reports consensus with the Radicals including (Nikolic and Seselj) with the Government regarding the SAA the B92 would have us believe as fact that the radicals are so divided that Nikolic cried on Tadic's shoulder and let him no about divisions within the ranks - that is contradictory to basic logic and the events of the day

This is one more reasons for Serbs to elect pro european members but in a democratic country there will always be a gov. party and the opposition. Don't elect any radicals which don't care about their fellow serbs but they care for a dictatorship which they (radicals) on the end get rich like Milosevic. Did they find all his money yet?

Serbia needs a real opposition that can take over when the voters are tired of the DS and Nikolic seems the most capable to provide.

Real opposition should center on economics and not on nationalism. On national items you need national unity to be effective to the outer world.

It looks like Nikolic will be forced to found his own party. The question is whether he can find enough allies to get that from the ground. And he needs a good excuse for the break.

Poor Toma, he can go overboard, but he's not really such a bad soul.

We saw the beginnings of this when Maja Gojkovic told him that it was time to reform the party. He reportedly agreed that reform was necessary, but not yet - Seselj would not allow it. At the same time Seselj told Toma that Gojkovic must be expelled from the party. Toma brokered her silence, hung on to both of them for a few weeks then finally Seselj insisted she had to go. How useful she (as formerly the most popular and senior radical) would be to him now!

Then you had the public humiliation of Nikolic when Kostunica stabbed him in the back by not appointing him parliamentary speaker.

Finally you had Kostunica and Seselj going behind his back to give Kostinica the Prime Minister spot without Nikolic's knowledge.

But Toma is stuffed now. I'm afraid he might just decide it isn't worth it and just to leave politics. I'm sure he would not want to be seen to be disloyal by founding another party, but it looks as if he is now in the minority.

One can only imagine what a Kostunica / Nikolic / Seselj government would have been like...

Anyway I think that Nikolic deserves to lead SRS and deserves to reform the party - he gave that party its best ever result, not Seselj. It saddens me to think that ordinary members are disrespecting Nikolic and might be laughing behind his back even if I don't agree with SRS policies.

Serbia needs a real opposition that can take over when the voters are tired of the DS and Nikolic seems the most capable to provide.

Real opposition should center on economics and not on nationalism. On national items you need national unity to be effective to the outer world.

It looks like Nikolic will be forced to found his own party. The question is whether he can find enough allies to get that from the ground. And he needs a good excuse for the break.

This is one more reasons for Serbs to elect pro european members but in a democratic country there will always be a gov. party and the opposition. Don't elect any radicals which don't care about their fellow serbs but they care for a dictatorship which they (radicals) on the end get rich like Milosevic. Did they find all his money yet?

I guess now would be a good time to find out if SRS really is a serious political party with the interests of Serbian citizens at its heart, or whether it's just a Seselj fan club.

I bet nobody has the 'courage' to find out.

This is bunk.

On the same day that the B92 reports consensus with the Radicals including (Nikolic and Seselj) with the Government regarding the SAA the B92 would have us believe as fact that the radicals are so divided that Nikolic cried on Tadic's shoulder and let him no about divisions within the ranks - that is contradictory to basic logic and the events of the day