DS: Early elections won't solve anything

Senior DS official Oliver Dulic says that early elections would be a bad solution for the country and that no one in the party is considering such an option. "If the Democratic Party was an irresponsible political party looking only after its own interests, we would probably call early elections, because the fact is that we are the most stable and strongest party that enjoys 40 percent support among voters,” Dulic told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. DS: Early elections won't solve anything “We could also take advantage of the fact that the opposition is in an unenviable state, not only because of the Serb Radical Party break-up, but also because of the ‘identity crises’ that the coalition gathered around the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) faces,” said the environment and spatial planning minister. He said that the DS “believes this government has serious prospects of bringing Serbia towards the EU, of stabilizing the political scene, while the opposition should be given a chance to regroup over the next four years and try to pursue its own policies, however unlikely that might be” he said. When asked about a possible future government with Tomislav Nikolic’s newly-formed Serb Progressive Party, Dulic said that the DS believed that “the same or a similar coalition would receive a mandate to form a future government.” "However, the political reality in Serbia obliges us to start to thinking about options that were not even possible until recently at local and state level,” Dulic said, adding that in 2012, “we will be four years older and wiser when it comes to taking the right decision.” Oliver Dulic (FoNet, archive)

DS: Early elections won't solve anything

“We could also take advantage of the fact that the opposition is in an unenviable state, not only because of the Serb Radical Party break-up, but also because of the ‘identity crises’ that the coalition gathered around the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) faces,” said the environment and spatial planning minister.

He said that the DS “believes this government has serious prospects of bringing Serbia towards the EU, of stabilizing the political scene, while the opposition should be given a chance to regroup over the next four years and try to pursue its own policies, however unlikely that might be” he said.

When asked about a possible future government with Tomislav Nikolić’s newly-formed Serb Progressive Party, Dulić said that the DS believed that “the same or a similar coalition would receive a mandate to form a future government.”

"However, the political reality in Serbia obliges us to start to thinking about options that were not even possible until recently at local and state level,” Dulić said, adding that in 2012, “we will be four years older and wiser when it comes to taking the right decision.”