LDP MP leaves parliamentary group

Vesna Pesic has left Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) parliamentary group and will continue to act as an independent MP. The decision followed after LDP’s announcement that Pesic and the party disagreed on key issues and that she had caused damage the party. LDP MP leaves parliamentary group In a letter to Serbian parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, Pesic pointed out that she was not going to join any other parliamentary group or a party. “It's true that I voted against the Media Law and that the party supported it. There were more such occasions, such as uncritical support to judicial reform and other political and strategic assessments that I didn't agree with. They also resent me for having any position about anything,“ she stressed. Pesic pointed out that she had primarily been prompted to leave the LDP parliamentary group by the LDP Political Council’s statement that she had damaged the party and not by LDP leader Cedomir Jovanovic's controversial statement in parliament, referring to African nations as “cannibals“. She also added that she had warned Jovanovic that he could not reduce the damage he had incurred to the party and himself unless he apologized. “I believe that our political and public life cannot become democratic and free without even party leaders making a mistake sometimes. And the LDP Political Council has taken such a stand, but also the party officials. To make things even more unpleasant for me, the party leader has called the organ, the Political Council, fictitious,“ Pesic said and repeated that the LDP MPs did not have blank resignation letters. She resigned as LDP Political Council president in late March after Jovanovic's statement that Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic should “react to the plight of civilians in Libya instead of traveling to cannibals in Africa“. Vesna Pesic (Tanjug)

LDP MP leaves parliamentary group

In a letter to Serbian parliament Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović, Pešić pointed out that she was not going to join any other parliamentary group or a party.

“It's true that I voted against the Media Law and that the party supported it. There were more such occasions, such as uncritical support to judicial reform and other political and strategic assessments that I didn't agree with. They also resent me for having any position about anything,“ she stressed.

Pešić pointed out that she had primarily been prompted to leave the LDP parliamentary group by the LDP Political Council’s statement that she had damaged the party and not by LDP leader Čedomir Jovanović's controversial statement in parliament, referring to African nations as “cannibals“.

She also added that she had warned Jovanović that he could not reduce the damage he had incurred to the party and himself unless he apologized.

“I believe that our political and public life cannot become democratic and free without even party leaders making a mistake sometimes. And the LDP Political Council has taken such a stand, but also the party officials. To make things even more unpleasant for me, the party leader has called the organ, the Political Council, fictitious,“ Pešić said and repeated that the LDP MPs did not have blank resignation letters.

She resigned as LDP Political Council president in late March after Jovanović's statement that Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić should “react to the plight of civilians in Libya instead of traveling to cannibals in Africa“.