Opposition leader advises prime minister to step down
Opposition DS party leader and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas says that PM Ivica Dačić should resign - "until the accusations against him have been cleared up".
Friday, 15.02.2013.
12:54
BELGRADE Opposition DS party leader and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas says that PM Ivica Dacic should resign - "until the accusations against him have been cleared up". "My most sincere advice to Dacic would be to, in the interest of the state, withdraw from the position of prime minister until the accusations have been cleared up. Him remaining in that office will in the end make the story about fighting crime and corruption meaningless," the Democratic Party (DS) president stated. Opposition leader advises prime minister to step down According to Djilas, Dacic's cabinet is surviving thanks to the interest of the western countries to keep it alive for its cooperation over the issue of Kosovo. Speaking for the Belgrade-based tabloid Informer, Djilas noted that "the West, of course, will never say it in so many words - instead, they will package it nicely as the story about getting a date for the start of (EU membership talks)". "However, it is clear to everyone that the EU and the U.S. find it much more important to finalize the deal over Kosovo, than for Serbia to get that date." The stick and carrot policy exercised toward Serbia has been going on for a long time, he noted, and added that it "exhausted us very much": "As far as the stick goes we know what it is, we felt it on our own skin and we must avoid it - nevertheless, people are not rabbits and they cannot survive on carrots alone!" Asked if he knew that Dacic, then Serbia's interior minister, in 2008 and 2009 met with Rodoljub Radulovic, aka Misa Banana - a member of the narco clan led by Darko Saric - Djilas said that he did not, and specified that his concern was the city of Belgrade "rather than security issues". The DS leader also stated that "from the political perspective" it would be in his party's interest for the current government to survive for a while longer "and continue to collapse", asserting that the Democrats would be back in power without much effort "in two years' time". "However, Serbia will not be able to withstand this government for much longer. For that reason we must not shun our responsibility and we are ready to cooperate with those who accept the foundations of our policy," Djilas concluded. Dragan Djilas (Tanjug, file) Tanjug Informer
Opposition leader advises prime minister to step down
According to Đilas, Dačić's cabinet is surviving thanks to the interest of the western countries to keep it alive for its cooperation over the issue of Kosovo.Speaking for the Belgrade-based tabloid Informer, Đilas noted that "the West, of course, will never say it in so many words - instead, they will package it nicely as the story about getting a date for the start of (EU membership talks)".
"However, it is clear to everyone that the EU and the U.S. find it much more important to finalize the deal over Kosovo, than for Serbia to get that date."
The stick and carrot policy exercised toward Serbia has been going on for a long time, he noted, and added that it "exhausted us very much":
"As far as the stick goes we know what it is, we felt it on our own skin and we must avoid it - nevertheless, people are not rabbits and they cannot survive on carrots alone!"
Asked if he knew that Dačić, then Serbia's interior minister, in 2008 and 2009 met with Rodoljub Radulović, aka Miša Banana - a member of the narco clan led by Darko Šarić - Đilas said that he did not, and specified that his concern was the city of Belgrade "rather than security issues".
The DS leader also stated that "from the political perspective" it would be in his party's interest for the current government to survive for a while longer "and continue to collapse", asserting that the Democrats would be back in power without much effort "in two years' time".
"However, Serbia will not be able to withstand this government for much longer. For that reason we must not shun our responsibility and we are ready to cooperate with those who accept the foundations of our policy," Đilas concluded.
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