"Attacks on Tadić sign of frustration"

Senior DS official Dragoljub Micunovic says the attacks on the president are a sign of the opposition’s frustration. The president of the Political Council told daily Danas that the derogatory name-calling and public political curses directed at Boris Tadic had no effect, and that those who were calling him a dictator “either have no idea what a dictatorship is, or are obsessed with hate speak.“ "Attacks on Tadic sign of frustration" “However, calls to overturn Constitutional order are no longer verbal excesses but serious crimes,“ Micunovic said, adding that in view of “our violent political history and numerous assassinations, including the murder of Zoran Djindjic, then harking back to that history is more than just a mere verbal threat, and must be sanctioned.“ He said that he did not believe that the political situation in Serbia could become radicalized over the Kosovo issue. “I don’t see what the opposition really and truly has to offer besides its current policy,“ said Micunovic. Asked whether Serb Radical Party (SRS) officials, as organizers of the July 29 meeting in Belgrade where clashes broke out, should be brought to account, the Democratic Party (DS) official said that establishing criminal responsibility for the riots should be left to the police and prosecution. Asked whether there was any legal basis for outlawing the SRS, he said that he had always opposed outlawing parliamentary political parties, even during Operation Saber in the immediate aftermath of Djindjic’s assassination. Micunovic said that all democracies guarded themselves from extremist, violent groups, such as numerous neo-fascist and racist groups, using various means, even outlawing, if they represented a danger to society. He said that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), by participating in the July 29 meeting, had “shot itself in the foot“, adding that the party had gained nothing from the meeting, but had lost a great deal. Dragoljub Micunovic (FoNet, archive)

"Attacks on Tadić sign of frustration"

“However, calls to overturn Constitutional order are no longer verbal excesses but serious crimes,“ Mičunović said, adding that in view of “our violent political history and numerous assassinations, including the murder of Zoran Đinđić, then harking back to that history is more than just a mere verbal threat, and must be sanctioned.“

He said that he did not believe that the political situation in Serbia could become radicalized over the Kosovo issue.

“I don’t see what the opposition really and truly has to offer besides its current policy,“ said Mićunović.

Asked whether Serb Radical Party (SRS) officials, as organizers of the July 29 meeting in Belgrade where clashes broke out, should be brought to account, the Democratic Party (DS) official said that establishing criminal responsibility for the riots should be left to the police and prosecution.

Asked whether there was any legal basis for outlawing the SRS, he said that he had always opposed outlawing parliamentary political parties, even during Operation Saber in the immediate aftermath of Đinđić’s assassination.

Mićunović said that all democracies guarded themselves from extremist, violent groups, such as numerous neo-fascist and racist groups, using various means, even outlawing, if they represented a danger to society.

He said that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), by participating in the July 29 meeting, had “shot itself in the foot“, adding that the party had gained nothing from the meeting, but had lost a great deal.