Elections set to be called this week

According to reports and expectation, the election date should be revealed this week. B92’s unofficial sources say that a meeting is due to be held this week between the leaders of the Democratic Party (DS), the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and G17 Plus in order to set a date for presidential elections. Elections set to be called this week The parliamentary speaker’s cabinet says that if no agreement is reached, elections will most likely be scheduled for December 9. To B92’s knowledge, the DS will continue to call for December 9 as the election date. At a DSS executive committee meeting held yesterday, the subject of elections was not even brought up, while party spokesman Andreja Mladenovic says that his party’s position vis-a-vis elections is already well-known, that is to say, that they should not be held before December 9 until after the end of the Troika-led Kosovo talks. The Serb Radical Party feels that elections should be held on December 9, after all. For elections to be held on December 9, they have to be called by November 9. However, none of the laws required for elections to be held has yet undergone parliamentary procedure. Constitutional Law stipulates that elections must be called before the end of the year, which means that the other possibility is to hold elections at the start of next year. A third and, according to the speaker’s cabinet, least likely scenario is for the election timeframe to be altered via changes to Constitutional Law. LDP wants elections at all levels Liberal Democratic Party leader Cedomir Jovanovic last night repeated his insistence on elections to be held at all levels. “Those in power have reached a stage that even Milosevic never got to. Now, elections in this country are no longer called according to the Constitution, but rather when it suits those involved,“ said Jovanovic. “Just as we knew how to beat Milosevic, we know how to beat Kostunica, who is now doing to Nis and Serbia what Milosevic did up to October 5, 2000." "In the same way that, in beating Milosevic it was no problem for us to carry on without the opposition party that co-habited with him and that was at the time the pillar of Serbia’s opposition, so we can do the same again, this time without Tadic or the DS,“ stressed Jovanovic. The LDP leader said that Kosovo had become a weapon in the hands of an incapable government. “Kosovo is being used for a confrontation with the civil democratic forces of this country,“ concluded the LDP leader at a party committee meeting.

Elections set to be called this week

The parliamentary speaker’s cabinet says that if no agreement is reached, elections will most likely be scheduled for December 9.

To B92’s knowledge, the DS will continue to call for December 9 as the election date.

At a DSS executive committee meeting held yesterday, the subject of elections was not even brought up, while party spokesman Andreja Mladenović says that his party’s position vis-a-vis elections is already well-known, that is to say, that they should not be held before December 9 until after the end of the Troika-led Kosovo talks.

The Serb Radical Party feels that elections should be held on December 9, after all.

For elections to be held on December 9, they have to be called by November 9. However, none of the laws required for elections to be held has yet undergone parliamentary procedure.

Constitutional Law stipulates that elections must be called before the end of the year, which means that the other possibility is to hold elections at the start of next year.

A third and, according to the speaker’s cabinet, least likely scenario is for the election timeframe to be altered via changes to Constitutional Law.

LDP wants elections at all levels

Liberal Democratic Party leader Čedomir Jovanović last night repeated his insistence on elections to be held at all levels. “Those in power have reached a stage that even Milošević never got to. Now, elections in this country are no longer called according to the Constitution, but rather when it suits those involved,“ said Jovanović.

“Just as we knew how to beat Milošević, we know how to beat Koštunica, who is now doing to Niš and Serbia what Milošević did up to October 5, 2000."

"In the same way that, in beating Milošević it was no problem for us to carry on without the opposition party that co-habited with him and that was at the time the pillar of Serbia’s opposition, so we can do the same again, this time without Tadić or the DS,“ stressed Jovanović.

The LDP leader said that Kosovo had become a weapon in the hands of an incapable government. “Kosovo is being used for a confrontation with the civil democratic forces of this country,“ concluded the LDP leader at a party committee meeting.