Pensioners’ leader says he won’t be member of govt.

Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) leader Milan Krkobabić says the new government needs to function as a team but that he will not be a part of it.

Izvor: RTS

Wednesday, 11.07.2012.

10:44

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BELGRADE Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) leader Milan Krkobabic says the new government needs to function as a team but that he will not be a part of it. “This does not mean that I will not support it but I will not be a part of the team,” he told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). Pensioners’ leader says he won’t be member of govt. He stressed that the government needed to depend on the will of the people, “not on foreign factors or individuals in Serbia who think that they can rule the government”. Krkobabic did not want to say whether PUPS would accept to run some ministry but pointed out that the party needed to take responsibility for the parts of the government that would allow the party’s goals to be achieved. He also did not say whether Rasim Ljajic’s Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SPDS) would be a part of the new ruling majority, but noted that he had a positive opinion about Ljajic. The PUPS leader said that his party had insisted that pensions follow the rise in wages and that pensioners who had pensions lower than RSD 15,000 get the so-called “13th pension”. According to him, wages and pensions are too low and they cannot be reduced and the state should save money in other areas, such as public procurement and rationalization of the state administration. Krkobabic said that PUPS insisted on the social entrepreneurship concept and adoption of laws that would allow Serbia to employ around 70,000 disabled people, refugees and misplaced persons. When asked why he said that he would not sign the coalition agreement with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), he said that it was not good to do something on somebody’s behalf. “Imagine a political party when somebody is making decisions on its behalf, it’s unacceptable. (SPS leader Ivica) Dacic did not point out that he was doing it and he did not try to, but there was an impression in the public that it was so and we in the coalition are acting as entities, those are three distinctive parties,” he explained. The PUPS leader added that there would be no parliamentary majority without his party and that the election result allowed it to be one of the signatories of the coalition agreement. Milan Krkobabic (Tanjug, file) RTS Tanjug

Pensioners’ leader says he won’t be member of govt.

He stressed that the government needed to depend on the will of the people, “not on foreign factors or individuals in Serbia who think that they can rule the government”.

Krkobabić did not want to say whether PUPS would accept to run some ministry but pointed out that the party needed to take responsibility for the parts of the government that would allow the party’s goals to be achieved.

He also did not say whether Rasim Ljajić’s Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SPDS) would be a part of the new ruling majority, but noted that he had a positive opinion about Ljajić.

The PUPS leader said that his party had insisted that pensions follow the rise in wages and that pensioners who had pensions lower than RSD 15,000 get the so-called “13th pension”.

According to him, wages and pensions are too low and they cannot be reduced and the state should save money in other areas, such as public procurement and rationalization of the state administration.

Krkobabić said that PUPS insisted on the social entrepreneurship concept and adoption of laws that would allow Serbia to employ around 70,000 disabled people, refugees and misplaced persons.

When asked why he said that he would not sign the coalition agreement with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), he said that it was not good to do something on somebody’s behalf.

“Imagine a political party when somebody is making decisions on its behalf, it’s unacceptable. (SPS leader Ivica) Dačić did not point out that he was doing it and he did not try to, but there was an impression in the public that it was so and we in the coalition are acting as entities, those are three distinctive parties,” he explained.

The PUPS leader added that there would be no parliamentary majority without his party and that the election result allowed it to be one of the signatories of the coalition agreement.

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