Parliament consultations to continue

Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic announced that the consultations on the normalization of parliamentary work will continue. The talks will be ongoing until the start of the session, if necessary, she said. Parliament consultations to continue The session interrupted several weeks ago is scheduled to resume on Tuesday. Today, following over two hours of consultations in the parliament building in Belgrade, Djukic-Dejanovic said that the representatives of all parliamentary parties attended the talks and that they presented their demands. She added that it was concluded that the parliament should continue work and that different suggestions about the proposed agenda were heard. "Tomorrow, we plan to continue work and the political consultations will be conducted until then," the speaker said. Earlier, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) annoiunced it would not participate in today’s meetings. The Radicals stated that they would not attend the consultations because they were not invited, but only informed that the meeting would be held. At today’s consultations, MPs were expected to try and reach a solution that would unblock the work of parliament, since a session has been scheduled to continue tomorrow. In the meantime, opposition representatives, Natasa Micic of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Milos Aligrudic of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), speaking for B92 TV last night, agreed that the ruling parties were to blame for the blockade. “It is important to prepare a session according to the daily agenda. The ruling officials do that very clumsily, they are inept,” Micic said. “For instance, the resolution on Kosovo was on the agenda, but the consultations with MP groups weren't held, they refused to put the resolution of the Radicals on the agenda. You cannot ignore 108 MPs in that way, because that gives them room to discuss their own issues for days,” she said. Aligrudic said that the DSS would not obstruct the work of the parliament, but that it would not vote for the ratification of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU (SAA), because the moment is not right. “It is truly the ruling coalition that is to blame for not being able to organize themselves. When the DSS participated in the government, we had such ordeals and threats of obstruction. They were even realized for two days,” he reminded. “However, every time we did an analysis, we saw that it did not happen only when the Radical felt like doing so, we saw that we were responsible in a way as well. That is why we must sit down and find a solution to the problem,” Aligrudic said. New Serbia (NS) official Dubravka Filipovski told Tanjug news agency on Sunday that party leader Velimir Ilic will agree to attend consultations, where he will give concrete proposals for solving the current problems faced by the parliament.

Parliament consultations to continue

The session interrupted several weeks ago is scheduled to resume on Tuesday.

Today, following over two hours of consultations in the parliament building in Belgrade, Đukić-Dejanović said that the representatives of all parliamentary parties attended the talks and that they presented their demands.

She added that it was concluded that the parliament should continue work and that different suggestions about the proposed agenda were heard.

"Tomorrow, we plan to continue work and the political consultations will be conducted until then," the speaker said.

Earlier, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) annoiunced it would not participate in today’s meetings.

The Radicals stated that they would not attend the consultations because they were not invited, but only informed that the meeting would be held.

At today’s consultations, MPs were expected to try and reach a solution that would unblock the work of parliament, since a session has been scheduled to continue tomorrow.

In the meantime, opposition representatives, Nataša Mićić of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Miloš Aligrudić of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), speaking for B92 TV last night, agreed that the ruling parties were to blame for the blockade.

“It is important to prepare a session according to the daily agenda. The ruling officials do that very clumsily, they are inept,” Mićić said.

“For instance, the resolution on Kosovo was on the agenda, but the consultations with MP groups weren't held, they refused to put the resolution of the Radicals on the agenda. You cannot ignore 108 MPs in that way, because that gives them room to discuss their own issues for days,” she said.

Aligrudić said that the DSS would not obstruct the work of the parliament, but that it would not vote for the ratification of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU (SAA), because the moment is not right.

“It is truly the ruling coalition that is to blame for not being able to organize themselves. When the DSS participated in the government, we had such ordeals and threats of obstruction. They were even realized for two days,” he reminded.

“However, every time we did an analysis, we saw that it did not happen only when the Radical felt like doing so, we saw that we were responsible in a way as well. That is why we must sit down and find a solution to the problem,” Aligrudić said.

New Serbia (NS) official Dubravka Filipovski told Tanjug news agency on Sunday that party leader Velimir Ilić will agree to attend consultations, where he will give concrete proposals for solving the current problems faced by the parliament.