Nikolić: Time for change of government

SRS deputy leader Tomislav Nikolic says that it is clear at every step that the time has come for a change of government. “The current government has brought the country into chaos and that’s why I’m prepared to make changes,” said the Serb Radical Party’s presidential candidate at a rally in Bor. Nikolic: Time for change of government Today, he launched his election campaign with a visit to the Bor mine. Nikolic said that the government was no good as, in the year and a half since the Constitution was passed, they had only enacted eight laws. He called the failed attempt to adopt the 2008 budget “a collapse of the government system“, which, he said, could lead to a crisis within the governing coalition and, ultimately, to early parliamentary elections being called. The SRS deputy leader said that the ideological rift within the government would only become obvious in the next few days when matters such as “NATO membership, and the EU-led usurpation of Kosovo“ came on to the agenda. Nikolic was welcomed by around 50 supporters in full party regalia in front of the headquarters of RTB Bor, before heading for the copper mine itself. Tomislav Nikolic (Beta, archive) Nikolic expecting to go it alone SRS deputy leader Tomislav Nikolic said last night that he did not expect anyone’s support at the presidential elections. Nikolic added that the Democratic Party Of Serbia’s (DSS) support for President Boris Tadic “did not fit ideologically”. Following the DSS-New Serbia coalition's call to the Democratic Party’s (DS) to review their common policy at the elections, he said that he was not counting on anyone’s support, though he “genuinely expected” the DSS’s people to really consider “the two paths for Serbia.” “If he (Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica) has decided, that’s his affair. It doesn’t fit ideologically and just looks like the same lie as at the last presidential elections, but what can I do,” the Serb Radical Party (SRS) deputy leader told Beta. Asked whether he expected DSS-New Serbia to support him at the upcoming elections if talks with the DS fail, he replied that he was “not giving the matter any consideration.” “Had they wished to speak to me, they’d have offered to discuss the elections. I don’t know why they offered Tadic,” said Nikolic, adding that he could not make any predictions as to the forthcoming DS-DSS-New Serbia talks as he did not know what was going on there. The SRS deputy leader had earlier called on Kostunica to decide between him and Tadic at the forthcoming ballot.

Nikolić: Time for change of government

Today, he launched his election campaign with a visit to the Bor mine.

Nikolić said that the government was no good as, in the year and a half since the Constitution was passed, they had only enacted eight laws.

He called the failed attempt to adopt the 2008 budget “a collapse of the government system“, which, he said, could lead to a crisis within the governing coalition and, ultimately, to early parliamentary elections being called.

The SRS deputy leader said that the ideological rift within the government would only become obvious in the next few days when matters such as “NATO membership, and the EU-led usurpation of Kosovo“ came on to the agenda.

Nikolić was welcomed by around 50 supporters in full party regalia in front of the headquarters of RTB Bor, before heading for the copper mine itself.

Nikolić expecting to go it alone

SRS deputy leader Tomislav Nikolić said last night that he did not expect anyone’s support at the presidential elections.

Nikolić added that the Democratic Party Of Serbia’s (DSS) support for President Boris Tadić “did not fit ideologically”.

Following the DSS-New Serbia coalition's call to the Democratic Party’s (DS) to review their common policy at the elections, he said that he was not counting on anyone’s support, though he “genuinely expected” the DSS’s people to really consider “the two paths for Serbia.”

“If he (Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica) has decided, that’s his affair. It doesn’t fit ideologically and just looks like the same lie as at the last presidential elections, but what can I do,” the Serb Radical Party (SRS) deputy leader told Beta.

Asked whether he expected DSS-New Serbia to support him at the upcoming elections if talks with the DS fail, he replied that he was “not giving the matter any consideration.”

“Had they wished to speak to me, they’d have offered to discuss the elections. I don’t know why they offered Tadić,” said Nikolić, adding that he could not make any predictions as to the forthcoming DS-DSS-New Serbia talks as he did not know what was going on there.

The SRS deputy leader had earlier called on Koštunica to decide between him and Tadić at the forthcoming ballot.