| Nikolić: My victory won't topple government |
| 8 January 2008 | 20:15
| Source:
B92, FoNet |
BELGRADE --
Tomislav Nikolić told a Belgrade daily that his presidential victory would not bring down the government.
 | Nikolić speaks at an election rally (Beta)
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"Whoever can muster the support of 126 MPs will rule. I will call elections only if Koštunica resigns," Nikolić, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) candidate in the January 20 election, said about his plans should his bid to become Serbia's next president prove successful.
Although individually the strongest party to emerge from the January 2007 parliamentary vote, the SRS did not win the majority and was unable to find coalition partners to form a government.
Serbia is currently ruled by the DS-DSS-NS-G17 Plus coalition of the so-called Democratic Bloc.
Now Nikolić, who is deputy SRS president, while party leader Vojislav Šešelj faces war crimes trial at the Hague Tribunal, told Večernje Novosti that, irrelevant of the election's outcome, "ideally, Tadić, Koštunica and myself should decide together and stand behind any decision important for the country."
Nikolić added he was "completely open for cooperation" with Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica's DSS.
According to him, Koštunica "still has enough time to in peace consider who to support in the run-off".
Incumbent Tadić, the leader of the Democrats (DS), and Nikolić are expected to make it to the second round for a face-off on February 3.
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