BELGRADE -- Marko Jakšić has said that the Constitutional Court of Serbia should appraise the Brussels agreement before the people have a chance to vote in a referendum.
"Constitutional Court should rule on deal before referendum"
BELGRADE -- Marko Jakšić has said that the Constitutional Court of Serbia should appraise the Brussels agreement before the people have a chance to vote in a referendum.
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The declaration was adopted last week during a protest in Kosovska Mitrovica against the agreement reached during the Belgrade-Priština dialogue:
"Article 3 of the Declaration, which we adopted in the presence of some 20,000 people, contains our demand for the Brussels agreement to be appraised by the Constitutional Court before the referendum."
Jakšić further said that PM Ivica Dačić's statement that the holding of the referendum should not delay the implementation of the deal "did not seem logical":
"What's the point of the referendum itself that will not be respected by anyone, if it isn't binding for the current authorities," Jakšić asked.
First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić mentioned a deadline of two weeks for the voting to take place.
Serbs from northern Kosovo are expected to state their position on this on Tuesday.
In the meanwhile, the DSS continued gathering citizens' signatures for its campaign launched in support of "a peaceful resistance" of Serbs to the deal. The party said on Monday that a large number of signatures had already been collected.
"We knew that even when we were the only ones who defended the interests of the state in parliament. The citizens who voted for this government did not give them their support to dismantle our country's institutions in Kosovo and Metohija," DSS MP Dušica Morčev told reporters.
She added that it was important for the referendum to be held and give the citizens a chance to have their say on the agreement.
The DSS has no doubt that the majority will say "no" to the separation and handing over of Kosovo and Metohija, Morčev stated.
This party will also support a protest gathering announced for May 10 in Belgrade, she revealed. The protest will be organized by Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija.
Maybe these guys own stock in the Belgrade newspapers? They'll sell a lot more if the referendum doesn't go through and everybody is kept sitting on the edge of their seats for the next few years (or on logs, depending). Instead of the same old stories of EU diplomats coming and going and saying nothing much during joint press conferences, there will be ... who can tell? Protest marches, the constitutional court ruling, and then again and again on new questions, elections, and then new elections, dramatic projections of the country's population disappearing within current lifetimes as mass migrations to Croatia after July 1 are organized, financial panics as investors finally give up and stop returning Dinkic's phone calls ... The newspapers at least should do just fine, though.
(Amer, 30 April 2013 10:39)
Maybe these guys own stock in the Belgrade newspapers? They'll sell a lot more if the referendum doesn't go through and everybody is kept sitting on the edge of their seats for the next few years (or on logs, depending). Instead of the same old stories of EU diplomats coming and going and saying nothing much during joint press conferences, there will be ... who can tell? Protest marches, the constitutional court ruling, and then again and again on new questions, elections, and then new elections, dramatic projections of the country's population disappearing within current lifetimes as mass migrations to Croatia after July 1 are organized, financial panics as investors finally give up and stop returning Dinkic's phone calls ... The newspapers at least should do just fine, though.
(Amer, 30 April 2013 10:39)
Maybe these guys own stock in the Belgrade newspapers? They'll sell a lot more if the referendum doesn't go through and everybody is kept sitting on the edge of their seats for the next few years (or on logs, depending). Instead of the same old stories of EU diplomats coming and going and saying nothing much during joint press conferences, there will be ... who can tell? Protest marches, the constitutional court ruling, and then again and again on new questions, elections, and then new elections, dramatic projections of the country's population disappearing within current lifetimes as mass migrations to Croatia after July 1 are organized, financial panics as investors finally give up and stop returning Dinkic's phone calls ... The newspapers at least should do just fine, though.
(Amer, 30 April 2013 10:39)