The coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, Natasa Micic's Civic Union of Serbia, the Social Democratic Union of Zarko Korac and the League of the Social Democrats of Vojvodina, led by Nenad Canak, won 15 seats in the national parliament after Sunday's parliamentary elections.
Jovanovic, a leader of students' protests against the Slobodan Milosevic regime in 1996 and 1997 and a close aide of the assassinated Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, told the Radio B92 radio on Tuesday night that he could not see a place in the new government for the outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
He called on Kostunica and his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the leader of the G17 Plus party, Mladjan Dinkic to support a minority party led by the Democratic Party of the current Serbian President Boris Tadic.
The new government would include representatives of Jovanovic's coalition and of ethnic minorities.
"The least Kostunica and Dinkic can do is to support a government that would lead Serbia in a different way than they did," Jovanovic said adding that such a minority government did not have to be in office for four years but only until the resumption of the negotiations with the European Union on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement, the arrest of war-time Bosnian Serb leaders, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, and the definition of a final status of Kosovo.
Jovanovic reiterated that Kosovo had been independent from Serbia for eight years and Serbia's priority should now be how it can facilitate the life of remaining Serbs in that UN-administered province, mainly populated by Albanians.
According to the latest results released by the Serbian Election commission, Serbian Radical Party will be the strongest party in parliament, with 81 seats, followed by President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party with 64 seats. The coalition formed by the Democratic Party of Serbia led by Kostunica and New Serbia will have 47 seats, while G17 Plus will have 19.