Dinkić, Ljajić to form new parties

Re-registration of parties could help streamline the political scene, with Mladan Dinkic and Rasim Ljajic announcing the creation of new, bigger parties. While it has been known for some time that Ljajic intends to form a new party—the Social Democratic Party of Serbia—the news that G17 Plus has announced a congress where it plans to promote a new party, with a new name and structure, comes as something of a surprise. Dinkic, Ljajic to form new parties Political analysts believe that these decisions have been driven not only by the new law, but also by a desire to bolster their coalition potential and “blackmailing capacities.” Dinkic ’s party is seeking to form a union of regions. According to G17 MP Vlajko Senic, the goal is to unite the political forces of parties that have the same or similar manifestos. “Our joint agreement will lead to the creation of a new party that will have its own electoral potential and that will stand at the republic elections as a single political option. In that context, it will be a right-of-center party, one that, in an economic sense, will espouse a liberal market economy, small and effective government and a cheap state, and, in foreign policy terms, will champion the idea of Serbian Euro-integration,” said Senic. The new party will have a new name and revamped manifesto, he added. “I can say that it will be by the end of the year, some time by the end of November, I can’t give an exact date, but what’s certain is that that party will appear on the Serbian political scene in a legal, functional and organizational sense,” said the G17 member. Senic did not wish to state how many other parties would be joining G17 Plus, but said that the majority would be local parties. Meanwhile, Meho Omerovic of Rasim Ljajic’s soon-to-be Social Democratic Party of Serbia says that that party’s target group will be everyone that works for a living. “In future political work, we truly want to operate by respecting trade unions as social partners, while in terms of a strategic partnership on the political scene, we will, of course, be working most closely with our partners to date, the Democratic Party. By the end of the year, we’ll have signed an agreement on a strategic partnership between the DS and ourselves,” said Omerovic. He said that the key figure of the new party was Rasim Ljajic, who would bring together voters of all backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity. “Unlike all the others, Rasim Ljajic, even when he can’t solve a problem, tells people to their faces, he doesn’t lie to them, he tries to understand them, he empathizes with them, and it’s that characteristic that the majority of people in Serbia recognize in him: that of a sincere and honest approach to the common man, one who tries to address their problems,” Omerovic said. Rasim Ljajic (Tanjug, archive)

Dinkić, Ljajić to form new parties

Political analysts believe that these decisions have been driven not only by the new law, but also by a desire to bolster their coalition potential and “blackmailing capacities.”

Dinkić ’s party is seeking to form a union of regions. According to G17 MP Vlajko Senić, the goal is to unite the political forces of parties that have the same or similar manifestos.

“Our joint agreement will lead to the creation of a new party that will have its own electoral potential and that will stand at the republic elections as a single political option. In that context, it will be a right-of-center party, one that, in an economic sense, will espouse a liberal market economy, small and effective government and a cheap state, and, in foreign policy terms, will champion the idea of Serbian Euro-integration,” said Senić.

The new party will have a new name and revamped manifesto, he added.

“I can say that it will be by the end of the year, some time by the end of November, I can’t give an exact date, but what’s certain is that that party will appear on the Serbian political scene in a legal, functional and organizational sense,” said the G17 member.

Senić did not wish to state how many other parties would be joining G17 Plus, but said that the majority would be local parties.

Meanwhile, Meho Omerović of Rasim Ljajić’s soon-to-be Social Democratic Party of Serbia says that that party’s target group will be everyone that works for a living.

“In future political work, we truly want to operate by respecting trade unions as social partners, while in terms of a strategic partnership on the political scene, we will, of course, be working most closely with our partners to date, the Democratic Party. By the end of the year, we’ll have signed an agreement on a strategic partnership between the DS and ourselves,” said Omerović.

He said that the key figure of the new party was Rasim Ljajić, who would bring together voters of all backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity.

“Unlike all the others, Rasim Ljajić, even when he can’t solve a problem, tells people to their faces, he doesn’t lie to them, he tries to understand them, he empathizes with them, and it’s that characteristic that the majority of people in Serbia recognize in him: that of a sincere and honest approach to the common man, one who tries to address their problems,” Omerović said.