| SRS launches attack on "Mafia PM" Đinđić |
| 8 July 2008 | 10:41
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BELGRADE --
The election of the new government was preceded by an hour-long debate on assassinated PM Zoran Đinđić.
 | Zoran Đinđić (FoNet, archive)
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The discussion was launched by Serb Radical Party (SRS) MPs, who said that Đinđić had been a “Mafia prime minister”, to which only Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) MPs reacted.
SRS MP Vjerica Radeta, while criticizing the new cabinet, took the opportunity to launch a scathing attack on the late prime minister.
"Let me remind you, that on Vidovdan, seven years ago, you kidnapped Slobodan Milošević and sent him to The Hague. Let me also remind you of the remarks of Zoran Đinđić, the Mafia Prime Minister, who told Carla Del Ponte: ‘Take [Vojislav] Šešelj to the Hague and don’t bring him back,” Radeta told parliament.
That sparked a heated debate as SRS and LDP MPs exchanged places on the speaker’s podium for over an hour.
Among them was Ivan Andrić, who was surprised that the Democratic Party (DS) had not reacted to the insults.
"Does this mean that the ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party, as the biggest party in parliament, has, in the name of national reconciliation, decided that the sentence ‘Zoran Đinđić was a mafia prime minister’, is not a breach of the code of procedure? Believe me, this session won’t continue if you act so indifferently to that fact,” Andrić said.
The discussion ended when DS whip Nada Kolundžija addressed the hall.
"We’re not responding to the insults as it is our principle that these statement say more about the attackers, rather than the man to whom history will accord the place he deserves, as the first democratic prime minister of Serbia. At the same time, we think that it is distasteful to use his name and his sacrifice to get cheap political points. It’s for that reason that we’re refraining from reacting to either side’s comments,” Kolundžija said.
Speaker Slavica Đukić Dejanović tried to cool passions on a number of occasions, stating that MPs should use euphemisms, or polite terminology, when expressing their personal beliefs.
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