BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - The Yugoslav President and Democratic Party of Serbia candidate at a Serbian presidential election scheduled for December 8, Vojislav Kostunica, has said the fall of the republic's government is not an
impossible outcome should the elections fail.
BELGRADE, Nov 30 (Hina) - The Yugoslav President and Democratic
Party of Serbia candidate at a Serbian presidential election
scheduled for December 8, Vojislav Kostunica, has said the fall of
the republic's government is not an impossible outcome should the
elections fail. #L#
In an interview for this weekend's issue of Belgrade's daily
"Danas", Kostunica said that Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic
should say whether he wanted the presidential elections to succeed
and whether he supported a democratic candidate or a candidate of
the former regime.
Alongside Kostunica, other candidates for Serbian president are
Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and Borislav Pelevic, the
leader of the Party of Serb Unity.
If the elections fail again, "somebody will have to explain why
Serbia has no institutions, why, after all eulogies to reforms, it
is not capable of drawing up a clear and updated list of voters", as
well as how and based on what Yugoslav citizens abroad had been
stripped of their voting rights, Kostunica said.
"I think that in that case the situation will be radicalised, but
the issue in question will not be presidential, but parliamentary
elections. The current government has thus tied its future to the
result of elections," Kostunica said.
Djindjic and his Democratic Party have not given Kostunica direct
support because, as Kostunica has repeatedly said, they made their
support conditional on his not attacking the Serbian government in
his campaign.
The presidency of the ruling coalition DOS on Friday night
concluded that every member of the coalition would decide
independently about its stance towards the upcoming elections in
Serbia.
(hina) lml