SPS rules out cooperation with DS

Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dačić has ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the Democratic Party (DS).

Source: Beta

Tuesday, 01.04.2008.

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Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dacic has ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the Democratic Party (DS). However, Dacic added that it was realistic to expect the SPS to form the new government together with the Serb Radical Party (SRS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). SPS rules out cooperation with DS “The SPS is not ready for any agreement including the likes of Nenad Canak or Vuk Draskovic. Such a coalition with the DS is out of the question,” the SPS leader said in an interview for the Tuesday issue of daily Vecernje Novosti. Asked what government the SPS would be part of, he replied that according to the rules of political mathematics, the parliamentary majority would accompany the coalitions led by the SPS and DSS, and that there would be no majority without those two coalitions. Dacic said that the SPS had already insisted on a government with the SRS and DSS, and added that SPS was willing to make agreements. The Socialist leader said that he wanted his party, who would stand at the elections alongside the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia, to win at least 10 percent of the vote, and that the party’s candidate for prime minister would be Milutin Mrkonjic. He said that the SPS continued to oppose the extradition of any Serbian citizens to the Hague. Dacic added that Serbia should never join the EU if it meant giving up Kosovo. The SPS leader said that if his party entered the new government, it would insist on an end to the persecution of and legal proceedings against the family of the late Serbian President and SPS head Slobodan Milosevic. Ivica Dacic (FoNet, archive)

SPS rules out cooperation with DS

“The SPS is not ready for any agreement including the likes of Nenad Čanak or Vuk Drašković. Such a coalition with the DS is out of the question,” the SPS leader said in an interview for the Tuesday issue of daily Večernje Novosti.

Asked what government the SPS would be part of, he replied that according to the rules of political mathematics, the parliamentary majority would accompany the coalitions led by the SPS and DSS, and that there would be no majority without those two coalitions.

Dačić said that the SPS had already insisted on a government with the SRS and DSS, and added that SPS was willing to make agreements.

The Socialist leader said that he wanted his party, who would stand at the elections alongside the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia, to win at least 10 percent of the vote, and that the party’s candidate for prime minister would be Milutin Mrkonjić.

He said that the SPS continued to oppose the extradition of any Serbian citizens to the Hague.

Dačić added that Serbia should never join the EU if it meant giving up Kosovo.

The SPS leader said that if his party entered the new government, it would insist on an end to the persecution of and legal proceedings against the family of the late Serbian President and SPS head Slobodan Milošević.

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