Koštunica: Opposition wants new elections

Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Vojislav Kostunica said that all opposition parties need to work together to get new elections announced. He told daily Danas that not only the opposition wants to see changes in the country. Kostunica said that all the citizens want to see changes, adding that “the situation in the country is very difficult and is getting worse every day." Kostunica: Opposition wants new elections “Responsibility for this agony rests on the government, which does not have the power and policies to deal with the larger and more difficult challenges which Serbia faces. All the opposition parties should unite to work on the announcement of new elections in order for the citizens to give their judgment on who should lead Serbia out of the crisis,” Kostunica said. The former prime minister said that the government made a mistake by “not holding open dialogue with the European Union regarding the Kosovo question, and ran away into cheap demagogy that it will never recognize Kosovo.” Kostunica said that a serious government cannot run from permanent dialogue with the EU in which it gives strong arguments for Serbia as a whole in the EU and at the same time, criticizes every move that goes against Serbia’s legitimate national interests. He said that in the “last ten years, there has been an established policy towards the EU which is based on and begins with the state and national interests.” “Not even a letter of my policies has changed in this sense,” Kostunica said. Vojislav Kostunica (FoNet archive)

Koštunica: Opposition wants new elections

“Responsibility for this agony rests on the government, which does not have the power and policies to deal with the larger and more difficult challenges which Serbia faces. All the opposition parties should unite to work on the announcement of new elections in order for the citizens to give their judgment on who should lead Serbia out of the crisis,” Koštunica said.

The former prime minister said that the government made a mistake by “not holding open dialogue with the European Union regarding the Kosovo question, and ran away into cheap demagogy that it will never recognize Kosovo.”

Koštunica said that a serious government cannot run from permanent dialogue with the EU in which it gives strong arguments for Serbia as a whole in the EU and at the same time, criticizes every move that goes against Serbia’s legitimate national interests.

He said that in the “last ten years, there has been an established policy towards the EU which is based on and begins with the state and national interests.”

“Not even a letter of my policies has changed in this sense,” Koštunica said.