| Dulić-Marković calls for boycott |
| 5 October 2006 | 09:48
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B92, Beta |
NOVI SAD, BELGRADE --
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Ivana Dulić-Marković has called for a boycott of the constitutional referendum.
 | Ivana Dulić-Marković
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Dulić-Marković said that she will propose the boycott at the next meeting of the G17 Plus party’s executive council.
She explained that her proposal to boycott stems from the fact that the constitutional proposal was never discussed publicly, that it does not offer a satisfactory level of autonomy for Vojvodina, and does not include the automatic acceptance of European legislature.
“My stance is that we should not participate in a referendum for such a constitution.” Dulić-Marković said.
Her party’s president, Serbian Finance Minister Mlađan Dinkić, said on Sunday that the G17 Plus party will call on citizens to vote for the passing of the constitutional proposal.
Tadić sees room for improvements
Boris Tadić said that the constitutional proposal has significant shortcomings, though it is better than the last one proposed.
The Serbian President said that there is room for improvements. He recently said that he was dissatisfied with the lack of discussions regarding the constitution and spoke of the possibilities for improving the act.
Though there were no public discussions, criticisms and comments started pouring in as soon as the proposal was green-lighted by the Parliament.
CESID official Marko Blagojević told B92 that despite boycotts, it is possible that a satisfactory amount of citizens will participate in the referendum, but that the problem is whether the needed amount of people, almost four million, will vote for the constitution’s passing.
Blagojević said that it will be a serious challenge for the parties that supported the passing of the proposal to motive their supporters and all Serbian citizens to participate in the referendum.
“It is not a problem to get 3.25 million people to participate in the referendum. To me it is a significantly bigger problem to believe that this many people, or even more, can vote for the same thing. Not for the proposal of the constitution, forget what is being voted on. This has never happened in this short history of a multi-partied system in Serbia.” Marko Blagojević said.
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