Nikolić: DS only responds to blackmail

Serb Progressive Party leader Tomislav Nikolić says that the Parliamentary Administrative Committee cannot strip his party of three mandates.

Izvor: Blic

Friday, 23.01.2009.

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Serb Progressive Party leader Tomislav Nikolic says that the Parliamentary Administrative Committee cannot strip his party of three mandates. The resignations of these three MPs were activated recently by the Serb Radical Party, he said. However, there are signals suggesting that the ruling coalition could make this concession to the Serb Radical Party (SRS) in order to help adopt the new Parliamentary Code of Procedure. Nikolic: DS only responds to blackmail “It turns out that the Democratic Party only responds to blackmail, and cannot behave normally in parliament, which is expected of the opposition as well,” Nikolic told daily Blic. “As soon as we parted company, the SRS started impeding the majority in taking decisions until they were given a say. And what did I do wrong there, flirting with the ruling coalition?” Nikolic said, commenting on his dismissal as Administrative Committee chairman and party colleague Jorgovanka Tabakoviic’s dismissal as chairman of the Financial Committee. The SNS leader said that under the Law on the Election of MPs, “the mandate can be entrusted to a party, but if the MP does not want to—he or she does not have to.” “The Radicals are now using resignations, but resignations aren’t about entrusting mandates, but an act of blackmail—you have to sign a resignation in order to confirm your mandate. Someone is already planning out your resignation, depending on how loyal you will be to the party,” Nikolic said. He said that if officials from his party were dismissed he would “go as far as the court in Strasbourg.” On claims that Radical leader Vojislav Seselj had negotiated the budget with President Boris Tadic, Nikolic said that Seselj “is so vain and in need of publicity that he confirmed these claims in The Hague, so it looks like the Radicals have cursed him and his offspring.”

Nikolić: DS only responds to blackmail

“It turns out that the Democratic Party only responds to blackmail, and cannot behave normally in parliament, which is expected of the opposition as well,” Nikolić told daily Blic.

“As soon as we parted company, the SRS started impeding the majority in taking decisions until they were given a say. And what did I do wrong there, flirting with the ruling coalition?” Nikolić said, commenting on his dismissal as Administrative Committee chairman and party colleague Jorgovanka Tabakoviić’s dismissal as chairman of the Financial Committee.

The SNS leader said that under the Law on the Election of MPs, “the mandate can be entrusted to a party, but if the MP does not want to—he or she does not have to.”

“The Radicals are now using resignations, but resignations aren’t about entrusting mandates, but an act of blackmail—you have to sign a resignation in order to confirm your mandate. Someone is already planning out your resignation, depending on how loyal you will be to the party,” Nikolić said.

He said that if officials from his party were dismissed he would “go as far as the court in Strasbourg.”

On claims that Radical leader Vojislav Šešelj had negotiated the budget with President Boris Tadić, Nikolić said that Šešelj “is so vain and in need of publicity that he confirmed these claims in The Hague, so it looks like the Radicals have cursed him and his offspring.”

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