Tadić, Jovanović confirm presidency bids

LDP's Čedomir Jovanović today announced his presidential bid; the DSS say he should run "locally, in the south".

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LDP's Cedomir Jovanovic today announced his presidential bid; the DSS say he should run "locally, in the south". The Liberal-Democrats (LDP) have today decided that their leader Cedomir Jovanovic will run for president. The party, an offshoot of the now ruling Democrats (DS), has unanimously backed its leader to enter the race, although the elections have yet to be called. Tadic, Jovanovic confirm presidency bids But the parliament speaker has the legal deadline of December 31 to announce the date for the presidential ballot. Vesna Pesic, chair of the LDP political council, described Jovanovic, a former DS official who fell out with the party majority after the assassination of Prime Minster Zoran Djindjic, as "the most prominent and the bravest" among "fighters for a different Serbia". Kosovo was not left out of the argument when Pesic said she believed her leader will be subjected to pressures "because he will not accept to see Serbia ruined with the rotten corrupt government", but also because he will "convincingly prove that Serbia today cannot be forced to accept the Kosovo dream dreamt for 500 years". Pesic is also hopeful that Jovanovic, as presidential candidate, would win more votes than the coalition gathered around the LDP managed in the January parliamentary vote, when the party won six parliamentary seats. Yesterday, one of the favorites to actually win the vote, incumbent Boris Tadic, told a DS main board session he would run for another term in the next presidential elections. Today, when the news about Jovanovic's candidacy reached the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) headquarters, their spokesman Andreja Mladenovic reacted by saying that "it would be more appropriate for him to run for one of the local authority offices in the south of Serbia". Once the presidential elections are held, it will become obvious that the number of votes Jovanovic can win will be equal to that necessary to undertake the duties of one of the offices in southern Serbia, Mladenovic said in a statement to Beta. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's party spokesman also added that "this electorate" will support Jovanovic "despite numerous accusations of criminal wrongdoings against the LDP leader." The southern parts of the country are inhabited by the largest ethnic Albanian community in Serbia outside of Kosovo. The DSS have not yet announced whether they will have their own candidate or extend support to Tadic. Presidential hopeful Cedomir Jovanovic addresses his party's main board (Beta)

Tadić, Jovanović confirm presidency bids

But the parliament speaker has the legal deadline of December 31 to announce the date for the presidential ballot.

Vesna Pešić, chair of the LDP political council, described Jovanović, a former DS official who fell out with the party majority after the assassination of Prime Minster Zoran Đinđić, as "the most prominent and the bravest" among "fighters for a different Serbia".

Kosovo was not left out of the argument when Pešić said she believed her leader will be subjected to pressures "because he will not accept to see Serbia ruined with the rotten corrupt government", but also because he will "convincingly prove that Serbia today cannot be forced to accept the Kosovo dream dreamt for 500 years".

Pešić is also hopeful that Jovanović, as presidential candidate, would win more votes than the coalition gathered around the LDP managed in the January parliamentary vote, when the party won six parliamentary seats.

Yesterday, one of the favorites to actually win the vote, incumbent Boris Tadić, told a DS main board session he would run for another term in the next presidential elections.

Today, when the news about Jovanović's candidacy reached the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) headquarters, their spokesman Andreja Mladenović reacted by saying that "it would be more appropriate for him to run for one of the local authority offices in the south of Serbia".

Once the presidential elections are held, it will become obvious that the number of votes Jovanović can win will be equal to that necessary to undertake the duties of one of the offices in southern Serbia, Mladenović said in a statement to Beta.

Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica's party spokesman also added that "this electorate" will support Jovanović "despite numerous accusations of criminal wrongdoings against the LDP leader."

The southern parts of the country are inhabited by the largest ethnic Albanian community in Serbia outside of Kosovo.

The DSS have not yet announced whether they will have their own candidate or extend support to Tadić.

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