Small parties still have "great blackmailing potential"

That is why simple change in Electoral Law is needed: parties are not to be allowed to make any coalitions before the election but only after, providing the fact that they have consequently passed the required census.
In that way we would have real vote of electorate on the governmental power and the clearance in the politucal work and agendas.
Of course this simple and logical change is too intelligent for our Politics so we will be forced to be subjected to this false democracy concept forever.

"So many parties! This is not healthy." (Ged)

-- Aye, but that is the unfortunate consequence of a government operating within a proportional representative system. Ideally, we'd like to see two or three solid parties like the CDU or SPD in Germany that form the coalition "core" - and Serbia is looking have DS and SNS be that core. But like Germany, third-tier coalition makers/breakers are always needed to pass the 50% threshold. Unlike Germany however, Serbian politics needs two, three, or even four parties to work with. DS is currently operating withing a ZES coalition and still needed 3 or 4 more parties to counter the SRS-DSS coalition in 2008.

Two possible remedies could be streamlining the smaller minority parties into one larger (yet still small) minority party, or expanding the DS and SNS to be more civic-based rather than ethnic based. Whatever the possible remedy, politics in Serbia has always lived up to the joke: "two Serbs, three parties."

So many parties! This is not healthy.

That is why simple change in Electoral Law is needed: parties are not to be allowed to make any coalitions before the election but only after, providing the fact that they have consequently passed the required census.
In that way we would have real vote of electorate on the governmental power and the clearance in the politucal work and agendas.
Of course this simple and logical change is too intelligent for our Politics so we will be forced to be subjected to this false democracy concept forever.

So many parties! This is not healthy.

"So many parties! This is not healthy." (Ged)

-- Aye, but that is the unfortunate consequence of a government operating within a proportional representative system. Ideally, we'd like to see two or three solid parties like the CDU or SPD in Germany that form the coalition "core" - and Serbia is looking have DS and SNS be that core. But like Germany, third-tier coalition makers/breakers are always needed to pass the 50% threshold. Unlike Germany however, Serbian politics needs two, three, or even four parties to work with. DS is currently operating withing a ZES coalition and still needed 3 or 4 more parties to counter the SRS-DSS coalition in 2008.

Two possible remedies could be streamlining the smaller minority parties into one larger (yet still small) minority party, or expanding the DS and SNS to be more civic-based rather than ethnic based. Whatever the possible remedy, politics in Serbia has always lived up to the joke: "two Serbs, three parties."