BELGRADE, Feb 4(Hina) - The election of Serbian parliament's president with the support of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialists "has opened the door for the return of the Socialist Party of Serbia to the legislative branch of powers," said
Boris Tadic, Vice-President of the Democratic Party (DS) in the parliament on Wednesday afternoon.
BELGRADE, Feb 4(Hina) - The election of Serbian parliament's president
with the support of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialists "has opened the
door for the return of the Socialist Party of Serbia to the
legislative branch of powers," said Boris Tadic, Vice-President of the
Democratic Party (DS) in the parliament on Wednesday afternoon.#L#
"It is good for Serbia to have a parliament speaker, but it is not
good that it got him thanks to the votes of the SPS, a party led by
(war crimes indictee) Slobodan Milosevic. This is the denial of all
values of the 5 October 2000," Tadic said, referring to the date when
Milosevic was removed from power.
"If there had been more patience and political wisdom, we would have
had agreement of parties from the democratic bloc on a joint
candidate," he added.
Tadic said his party would like to know which conditions the SPS had
set to vote for Dragan Mariscanin, Vice-President of the Democratic
Party of Serbia (DSS), as the new speaker of the Serbian assembly.
Marsicanin won the support of 128 out of 245 deputies, including those
of the SPS of Slobodan Milosevic, while 36 Democratic Party members
abstained. The post was contested by Gordana Pop Lazic of the Radical
Party, who gained 81 votes.
The chairman of the SPS main board, Ivica Dacic, told reporters before
the session that the 22 representatives of his party in the Assembly
would support the DSS candidate if that party publicly announced that
it would not negotiate with the Democratic Party of Tadic and Zoran
Zivkovic on forming a government.
On Wednesday morning, the DSS announced that it would form a minority
government.
(Hina) ms sb