Daily: Govt. dealt serious blow

The ruling coalition has been seriously shaken, and if it survives the clash between two of its members, the consequences could still be felt in parliament. Belgrade daily Blic singles out the Socialists (SPS) and G17 Plus as parties that are involved in the conflict, and said the Serbian parliament could once again be blocked even if the dispute is resolved. Daily: Govt. dealt serious blow DS, G17 Plus and SPS leaders Boris Tadic, Mladjan Dinkic and Ivica Dacic met on Thursday in Belgrade and agreed to postpone voting on a controversial media law for one month. However, the newspaper writes, unless the changes to the Law on Information pass at the end of August, G17 Plus will decide which other bills to support one at a time, which could block the work of parliament, and eventually lead to early elections. A source close to the top G17 Plus leadership told the daily that they received assurances from Tadic that the law would pass, but a possibility to withdraw it from procedure and join it with a set of media laws was also mentioned. This set would reportedly be prepared in September. "G17 Plus would not accept that, and Dinkic also mentioned in the meeting a possibility of a minority government supported by G17 Plus, which was rejected by Tadic and Dacic," said the source. "The Socialists have with this move created a crisis in the coalition and introduced a dangerous principle that individual parties are more important than the functioning of the coalition and government. From now on every member has a right to bring down any [draft] law adopted by the cabinet" said the G17 source, whose party tabled the bill, which the SPS later said it would not support.

Daily: Govt. dealt serious blow

DS, G17 Plus and SPS leaders Boris Tadić, Mlađan Dinkić and Ivica Dačić met on Thursday in Belgrade and agreed to postpone voting on a controversial media law for one month.

However, the newspaper writes, unless the changes to the Law on Information pass at the end of August, G17 Plus will decide which other bills to support one at a time, which could block the work of parliament, and eventually lead to early elections.

A source close to the top G17 Plus leadership told the daily that they received assurances from Tadić that the law would pass, but a possibility to withdraw it from procedure and join it with a set of media laws was also mentioned.

This set would reportedly be prepared in September.

"G17 Plus would not accept that, and Dinkić also mentioned in the meeting a possibility of a minority government supported by G17 Plus, which was rejected by Tadić and Dačić," said the source.

"The Socialists have with this move created a crisis in the coalition and introduced a dangerous principle that individual parties are more important than the functioning of the coalition and government. From now on every member has a right to bring down any [draft] law adopted by the cabinet" said the G17 source, whose party tabled the bill, which the SPS later said it would not support.