LSV: Koštunica covering up for Ilić

Nenad Canak has accused Vojislav Kostunica of covering up theft within his coalition by breaking off the concession contract. “We have always warned that a big scam was going on, and that this issue was damaging for Serbia, not so much in a material sense, even though the bribe taken by [Infrastructure Minister] Velimir Ilic in order for this to happen was large, but the fact that Serbia has been led up a dead-end,” the leader of the Vojvodina League of Social Democrats (LSV) said. LSV: Kostunica covering up for Ilic He added that “this part of the Belgrade-Pozega highway has nothing to do with Corridor 10, nor is it anything that can secure any kind of economic or structural development for Serbia.” Canak said that the whole situation was an attempt by Kostunica to terminate the contract with the Alpine-PORR concessionaires as soon as possible, before the elections, so that details would not be uncovered revealing the amount of thievery in the national coalition and by Minister Ilic, who insisted on gifting the income from the section of the highway that has already been built to the concessionaires.” “Cool heads, without pre-election euphoria, are needed to determine what should be done over this issue,” the LSV leader said, adding that the prime minister’s claims that suspension of the project meant the country’s “economic destruction” did not hold water. “How can one talk about the country’s economic destruction when we’re talking about a highway, but not when we are talking about the sale of the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS) to the Russian federation in return for political support to the national coalition,” he said. Canak said that his party would not form coalitions at local level with the Democratic Party (DS) and G17 Plus because it believed that the interests of the citizens of Vojvodina in the provincial assembly would be far better served by parties that had their central headquarters in the province itself. “At local, city and municipal level, organizations have complete freedom to form coalitions with anyone they believe will make the place they live better, except for the Serb Radical Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia,” the LSV leader pointed out. He added that there would be great competition for the position of Novi Sad mayor between the pro-democratic forces and the Serb Radical Party, which won the position at the last elections. Canak said that there was a possibility that officials of his party and others from the democratic bloc would give their support to incumbent mayor, Maja Gojkovic, in the Novi Sad race. Nenad Canak (FoNet)

LSV: Koštunica covering up for Ilić

He added that “this part of the Belgrade-Požega highway has nothing to do with Corridor 10, nor is it anything that can secure any kind of economic or structural development for Serbia.”

Čanak said that the whole situation was an attempt by Koštunica to terminate the contract with the Alpine-PORR concessionaires as soon as possible, before the elections, so that details would not be uncovered revealing the amount of thievery in the national coalition and by Minister Ilić, who insisted on gifting the income from the section of the highway that has already been built to the concessionaires.”

“Cool heads, without pre-election euphoria, are needed to determine what should be done over this issue,” the LSV leader said, adding that the prime minister’s claims that suspension of the project meant the country’s “economic destruction” did not hold water.

“How can one talk about the country’s economic destruction when we’re talking about a highway, but not when we are talking about the sale of the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS) to the Russian federation in return for political support to the national coalition,” he said.

Čanak said that his party would not form coalitions at local level with the Democratic Party (DS) and G17 Plus because it believed that the interests of the citizens of Vojvodina in the provincial assembly would be far better served by parties that had their central headquarters in the province itself.

“At local, city and municipal level, organizations have complete freedom to form coalitions with anyone they believe will make the place they live better, except for the Serb Radical Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia,” the LSV leader pointed out.

He added that there would be great competition for the position of Novi Sad mayor between the pro-democratic forces and the Serb Radical Party, which won the position at the last elections.

Čanak said that there was a possibility that officials of his party and others from the democratic bloc would give their support to incumbent mayor, Maja Gojković, in the Novi Sad race.