The DSHV president and member of the Serbian Assembly, Petar Kuntic, said that events surrounding the formation of the new government in Serbia "don't give much hope."
"Still, I hope that the SRS from the 90s and today's SRS are not the same. We hope that new ideas that exist in that party will help build a society based on tolerance, cooperation and acceptance, particularly in relation to minority communities," Kuntic said.
Meanwhile, Albanian leaders in the southern breakaway province of Kosovo said that Nikolic's election would have a negative impact on the region and Euro-Atlantic integration processes.
The head of the leading opposition party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Hashim Thaqi, said that Nikolic's election was the worst possible solution for Kosovo's Serbs. He called on the local Serbs to become involved in Kosovo institutions and seek their rights within Kosovo.
Ram Manaj, adviser to the chairman of the Kosovo Assembly, said that the election of Nikolic, who is deputy president of the Radical Party and successor to the party's chairman Vojislav Seselj, who is on trial at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was a sign of Serbia "returning to the past" and to "undemocratic practices."