Velimir Ilić, Vojislav Koštunica (Beta)

Democratic Party of Serbia leader Vojislav Koštunica said during the submission that the coalition’s main goal was the preservation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The second, Koštunica said, was entering the EU, with Kosovo as a constituent part.

The third was economic development, and the fourth countering corruption and organized crime, said the DSS leader and outgoing prime minister.

Accompanying Koštunica were New Serbia (NS) leader Velimir Ilić, DSS officials Radomir Naumov, Zoran Lončar, Miloš Aligrudić, and Andreja Mladenović, and NS’s Milanko Šarančić and Aleksandra Janković.

The DSS leader took the opportunity to repeat that the previous government had lost its reason to be “the moment our coalition partners in the government stopped sincerely fighting for Kosovo.”

Speaking also of their former partners, Ilić said that the DSS and NS had given their all in the last two governments, but that, as he put it, “it didn’t work out.”

“There were a lot of problems in the end, and a rift emerged in the government itself. We didn’t want to outvote or be outvoted, so elections ended up being called,” explained the NS leader, adding that he expected Serbia to receive a responsible government after the elections that would be the “pride of all its citizens.”

RIK must decide whether or not to approve lists within 24 hours of their submission.

The first to submit their list was the “For a European Serbia - Boris Tadić” coalition on Thursday, followed by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

RIK approved both lists, and since the parties will appear on ballot papers according to the order in which they were submitted, “For a European Serbia - Boris Tadić” will appear as no.1, and the LDP as no.2.

The parliamentary and local elections have been scheduled for May 11.

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