Nikolić: Koštunica could lead SRS govt.

Tomislav Nikolić will not rule out the prospect of Vojislav Koštunica staying on as prime minister in an SRS government.

Source: B92

Tuesday, 01.04.2008.

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Tomislav Nikolic will not rule out the prospect of Vojislav Kostunica staying on as prime minister in an SRS government. However, although he earlier dismissed the idea of Kostunica heading such a government, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) deputy leader said that he now accepted that “life brings coalitions.“ Nikolic: Kostunica could lead SRS govt. “There is no chance of the DSS receiving more votes than the SRS, but I’m not a calculating politician—in every government, the prime minister should be the one whose political party wins the most votes,“ he declared on March 13. However, Nikolic seems to have softened his position in the last two weeks. Although he did not want to answer the question of whether the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader could re-assume the post of prime minister after all, Nikolic said that both the SRS and their coalition partners would have to be prepared to make concessions. “We shouldn’t close doors, and we shouldn’t reject those we might cooperate with after the elections in advance. Neither can our coalition partners say whether their man will be prime minister, nor can I say that the prime minister will be a Radical. So, it’s up to you to find something in between,“ said the SRS deputy leader. He explained that his position stemmed partially from the ongoing government crisis, when it could be seen that the prime minister was powerless if the majority of ministers wanted to outvote him. However, he refused to say whether there was any truth to media speculation that SRS leader Vojislav Seselj had asked the party to concede the top job to Kostunica. Tomislav Nikolic (FoNet, archive)

Nikolić: Koštunica could lead SRS govt.

“There is no chance of the DSS receiving more votes than the SRS, but I’m not a calculating politician—in every government, the prime minister should be the one whose political party wins the most votes,“ he declared on March 13.

However, Nikolić seems to have softened his position in the last two weeks.

Although he did not want to answer the question of whether the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader could re-assume the post of prime minister after all, Nikolić said that both the SRS and their coalition partners would have to be prepared to make concessions.

“We shouldn’t close doors, and we shouldn’t reject those we might cooperate with after the elections in advance. Neither can our coalition partners say whether their man will be prime minister, nor can I say that the prime minister will be a Radical. So, it’s up to you to find something in between,“ said the SRS deputy leader.

He explained that his position stemmed partially from the ongoing government crisis, when it could be seen that the prime minister was powerless if the majority of ministers wanted to outvote him.

However, he refused to say whether there was any truth to media speculation that SRS leader Vojislav Šešelj had asked the party to concede the top job to Koštunica.

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