BELGRADE — President Boris Tadić says he is to open talks with the SPS because they share the same ideology as the Democratic Party.
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| Boris Tadić (FoNet, archive) |
The “For a European Serbia” list was beginning talks with the SPS-Associated Pensioners’ Party (PUPS)-United Serbia (JS) coalition, and at this particular moment in time there was no talk of ministerial places, and that rather the possibility of creating normal partnership relations was being discussed, said Tadić.
According to the president, both parties advocated a society that had the capacity to take care of its most vulnerable members, and in which no-one would be rejected or forgotten.
“We advocate a society that, economically, develops evenly, and increases its capacities to defend Kosovo. I think a further dimension to this cooperation exists that is by no means insignificant. The conditions would be created for, on the one hand, the standard of living to be enhanced, and on the other, to begin a process of historical reconciliation,“ he said.
“From a historical perspective, Serbia is weighed down by numerous divisions that have conditioned events in both our late and more recent history. This campaign has shown that neither the Democratic Party (DS) nor the SPS wants anyone to label citizens as ’traitors’ or ’enemies’, or to call for those with different views to be lynched. We wish to rid political life of the language of hate, and to get down to serious work, to solve the problems of the country and its citizens,“ Tadić stressed.
Meanwhile, New Serbia (NS) President Velimir Ilić said that he believed that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS)-NS coalition would be able to reach an agreement with the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition over forming a new government.
“The final talks are on Thursday. We won’t allow marathon negotiations; we do not want to waste time. We want things to be clear right away, to know where we stand—do we have an government with the SRS and SPS-PUPS-JS or not,” Ilić said, after attending talks with leaders of the SPS-led coalition.
He said that the talks had been conducted in a fair atmosphere, adding that SPS leader Ivica Dačić’s demand for social policies to be one of the principles of the government’s work had been approved.
Ilić did not want to say how optimistic he was that the SPS would agree to form a government with the DSS-NS and the Serb Radical Party (SRS).
“We will see. We have no experience in talks with SPS, so I cannot make any predictions, but I think everything will turn out fine,” he said.
Daily: Dačić potential deputy PM
Daily Blic writes that the Democratic Party (DS) and the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition are close to reaching an agreement on forming the new government.
The daily states that the DS has offered the position of deputy prime minister to Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dačić. It adds that another senior SPS official, Milutin Mrkonjić, has been offered the Capital Investments Ministry.
However, the daily states that Dačić’s condition for cooperating with the Democrats is the rehabilitation of Slobodan Milošević’s family.
The SPS leader is calling for the request sent to Russia for Milošević’s wife and son’s extradition to be dropped, Blic writes.
The DS’s response is that SPS would then have to agree to cooperate fully with the Hague Tribunal, writes the daily.
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“The DS’s response is that SPS would then have to agree to cooperate fully with the Hague Tribunal.”
WOW! The Hague Tribunal that releases Ramush Harindinaj into freedom, Well that’s just great!
DS and double standards.
Comment by suze — May 15, 2008 #