DS gives leader green light for talks with SPS

The Democratic Party (DS) main board that met in Belgrade yesterday has authorized party president Boris Tadić to negotiate a parliamentary majority.

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The Democratic Party (DS) main board that met in Belgrade yesterday has authorized party president Boris Tadic to negotiate a parliamentary majority. The Democrats also gave Tadic the right to decide on personnel issues concerning future cabinet ministers that might come from their ranks. DS gives leader green light for talks with SPS He previously called on his party to support a government that would be formed with the Socialists (SPS) and the two other parties in the SPS-led pre-election coalition: the Associated Pensioners Party (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS). Tadic said that an agreement on a future together is possible only if both parties "forget about the past". The SPS, founded and led by late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for more than a decade, was the ruling party in Serbia throughout the 1990s. The DS leader said yesterday that during the negotiations to form the next government, "the policy and convictions of the Democratic Party, too, will be defended", but added that "there will be space left for others who will find themselves in the new cabinet". Reacting to Tadic's speech Saturday, SPS leader Ivica Dacic said such sentiment can represent a step forward in bids "to normalize relations between the DS and the SPS". However, he added that the Socialists "did not and will not" talk to other "political options" while their negotiations with the Radicals (SRS) and the DSS-NS are ongoing. Dacic also said that the coming days will show clearly whether there will be a ruling coalition forged with the SRS-DSS-NS. "Regardless of the fact the SPS is the largest party in this [SPS-PUPS-JS] coalition, and the fact that it has its political positions that are pivotal to the coalition, it's necessary to determine a joint stand and unity of the coalition's parties," he was quoted as saying late Saturday. The Radicals also reacted to Tadic's speech to his party's main board, to slam his motives. "Tadic has demonstrated that he has no political idea or principles, but is exclusively interested in remaining in power at any cost," SRS deputy leader Tomislav Nikolic commented. The Radicals once again called on the Socialists to make their position on who they wish to join in the next government clear.

DS gives leader green light for talks with SPS

He previously called on his party to support a government that would be formed with the Socialists (SPS) and the two other parties in the SPS-led pre-election coalition: the Associated Pensioners Party (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS).

Tadić said that an agreement on a future together is possible only if both parties "forget about the past".

The SPS, founded and led by late Serbian President Slobodan Milošević for more than a decade, was the ruling party in Serbia throughout the 1990s.

The DS leader said yesterday that during the negotiations to form the next government, "the policy and convictions of the Democratic Party, too, will be defended", but added that "there will be space left for others who will find themselves in the new cabinet".

Reacting to Tadić's speech Saturday, SPS leader Ivica Dačić said such sentiment can represent a step forward in bids "to normalize relations between the DS and the SPS".

However, he added that the Socialists "did not and will not" talk to other "political options" while their negotiations with the Radicals (SRS) and the DSS-NS are ongoing.

Dačić also said that the coming days will show clearly whether there will be a ruling coalition forged with the SRS-DSS-NS.

"Regardless of the fact the SPS is the largest party in this [SPS-PUPS-JS] coalition, and the fact that it has its political positions that are pivotal to the coalition, it's necessary to determine a joint stand and unity of the coalition's parties," he was quoted as saying late Saturday.

The Radicals also reacted to Tadić's speech to his party's main board, to slam his motives.

"Tadić has demonstrated that he has no political idea or principles, but is exclusively interested in remaining in power at any cost," SRS deputy leader Tomislav Nikolić commented.

The Radicals once again called on the Socialists to make their position on who they wish to join in the next government clear.

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