"SPS against vertical power structure"

President of the SPS’s Executive Board Branko Ružić says the coalition of the SPS, the DSS and SRS in Belgrade is “natural” and poses no problems for state level.

Izvor: B92

Friday, 27.06.2008.

09:23

Default images

President of the SPS’s Executive Board Branko Ruzic says the coalition of the SPS, the DSS and SRS in Belgrade is “natural” and poses no problems for state level. “A natural coalition is one such as has already been defined by the coalition at Belgrade local level, and I don’t think that should be a problem.Whether anything will change depends on the partners that signed that agreement, including ourselves,“ said Ruzic. "SPS against vertical power structure" Speaking to B92, he said forming vertical power was not a sustainable principle. “We are very principled. When you ask us if something has to be done vertically, we say no. Since the multi-party system was introduced in Serbia, has there always been a vertical power structure? No. Maybe in the first couple of years,“ he said, adding that the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) viewed this as an unsustainable principle. In the SPS official’s opinion, it was unacceptable for the SPS to form any kind of majority with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and asked whether there were any circumstances under which the SPS would consider a minority government supported by the LDP, he said that such an initiative had not been proposed to the SPS and that “those sending it would first have to carefully consider whether they had the nerve to send such an initiative to the SPS.“ He said that the priority was to form a government and that for that reason “there was no need to complicate the formation of the government with the issue of Belgrade.“ Ruzic dismissed Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Vojislava Kostunica's comments that the SPS, by forming a coalition with the DS, had shown its true face. The SPS official added that it had been the DSS that had taken a step back in negotiations, not the SPS, and that by deciding to form a coalition with the DS, the Socialists had been guided by the interests of Serbia and its citizens. Branko Ruzic (FoNet, archive)

"SPS against vertical power structure"

Speaking to B92, he said forming vertical power was not a sustainable principle.

“We are very principled. When you ask us if something has to be done vertically, we say no. Since the multi-party system was introduced in Serbia, has there always been a vertical power structure? No. Maybe in the first couple of years,“ he said, adding that the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) viewed this as an unsustainable principle.

In the SPS official’s opinion, it was unacceptable for the SPS to form any kind of majority with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and asked whether there were any circumstances under which the SPS would consider a minority government supported by the LDP, he said that such an initiative had not been proposed to the SPS and that “those sending it would first have to carefully consider whether they had the nerve to send such an initiative to the SPS.“

He said that the priority was to form a government and that for that reason “there was no need to complicate the formation of the government with the issue of Belgrade.“

Ružić dismissed Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Vojislava Koštunica's comments that the SPS, by forming a coalition with the DS, had shown its true face.

The SPS official added that it had been the DSS that had taken a step back in negotiations, not the SPS, and that by deciding to form a coalition with the DS, the Socialists had been guided by the interests of Serbia and its citizens.

Komentari 2

Pogledaj komentare

2 Komentari

Možda vas zanima

Podeli: