"I have nothing against the initiative, but its failure, which is completely certain, means that Parliament will be dissolved, the Government will fall and new elections follow. We have nothing against new elections. We are completely ready," Tadic said at the Main Committee of his Democratic Party.
The initiative to recall Tadic, because of his call on Serbs in Kosovo to vote in forthcoming elections in the province, was endorsed with signatures by 84 MPs of Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party and 22 MPs of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party. No date has been set for a debate on the initiative.
A two-thirds majority of parliamentary votes is necessary for the initiative to pass, namely the votes of 167 of 250 MPs. The Radicals and the Socialists, therefore, need 63 more votes. Under the Constitution, the President is recalled if Parliament's decision is backed at a referendum by more than half of Serbia's electorate, namely by about 3.25 million constituents. If fewer than this number vote for the initiative, Parliament is dissolved and extraordinary elections are called.
The Democratic Party of Serbia will not endorse the initiative, the chairman of its parliamentary club of deputies, Milos Aligrudic, has said. The parties making up Serbia's minority Government, Miroljub Labus' G17 Plus and the coalition of Vuk Draskovic's Serbian Revival Movement and Velimir Ilic's New Serbia, also spoke against the initiative.