Parliament resumes session

Parliament resumed its emergency session today, but again proceedings were interrupted by the war of words between the SRS and Forward Serbia.

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Monday, 29.09.2008.

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Parliament resumed its emergency session today, but again proceedings were interrupted by the war of words between the SRS and Forward Serbia. Parliament is due to debate the dismissals of certain judiciary officials, as well as proposals for the elections of four deputy ombudsmen and a deputy parliamentary secretary. Parliament resumes session The session began on Thursday, but that day, as on Friday, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) obstructed parliament’s work. Parliament has started a debate on the election of four ombudsman deputies, the nominees for which are Goran Basic, Zorica Mrsevic, Tamara Luksic Orlandic and Milos Jankovic. Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic said that he had nominated these candidates a year and a half ago, and that in that period no-one had ever disputed their professional or personal qualities. Serb Radical Party (SRS) MPs objected to the fact that some of the candidates were not professional lawyers, while others had earlier worked in NGOs. A new emergency session was scheduled to begin today with an agenda including a set of laws that need to be adopted for Serbia to accede to the Schengen White List, as well as a package of anti-corruption laws. On Friday, parliament completed its debate on the first item of the agenda—the election of members to the National Bank of Serbia’s Council. Parliament’s work, however, was hindered by the ongoing feud between the SRS and Tomislav Nikolic's newly-formed Forward Serbia faction. The SRS used the parliamentary floor to draw attention to their internal problems, calling on the return of mandates from those MPs that had gone over to the Forward Serbia MP club. SRS MPs have continued to launch a torrent of accusations at Nikolic, calling him a traitor who wanted to break up the party. SRS MP Momir Markovic said that the party still existed and had not broken up, and that it was stronger than ever because it had cleansed itself of domestic traitors. Nikolic said that he had no desire to respond every time to attacks from those who were merely carrying out someone else's instructions. The Forward Serbia leader said that the MP mandates belonged to him and that he would return them to the SRS if he wanted to, but that this had nothing to do with President Boris Tadic. Parliament (FoNet, archive)

Parliament resumes session

The session began on Thursday, but that day, as on Friday, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) obstructed parliament’s work.

Parliament has started a debate on the election of four ombudsman deputies, the nominees for which are Goran Bašić, Zorica Mršević, Tamara Lukšić Orlandić and Miloš Janković.

Ombudsman Saša Janković said that he had nominated these candidates a year and a half ago, and that in that period no-one had ever disputed their professional or personal qualities.

Serb Radical Party (SRS) MPs objected to the fact that some of the candidates were not professional lawyers, while others had earlier worked in NGOs.

A new emergency session was scheduled to begin today with an agenda including a set of laws that need to be adopted for Serbia to accede to the Schengen White List, as well as a package of anti-corruption laws.

On Friday, parliament completed its debate on the first item of the agenda—the election of members to the National Bank of Serbia’s Council.

Parliament’s work, however, was hindered by the ongoing feud between the SRS and Tomislav Nikolić's newly-formed Forward Serbia faction.

The SRS used the parliamentary floor to draw attention to their internal problems, calling on the return of mandates from those MPs that had gone over to the Forward Serbia MP club.

SRS MPs have continued to launch a torrent of accusations at Nikolić, calling him a traitor who wanted to break up the party.

SRS MP Momir Marković said that the party still existed and had not broken up, and that it was stronger than ever because it had cleansed itself of domestic traitors.

Nikolić said that he had no desire to respond every time to attacks from those who were merely carrying out someone else's instructions.

The Forward Serbia leader said that the MP mandates belonged to him and that he would return them to the SRS if he wanted to, but that this had nothing to do with President Boris Tadić.

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