BELGRADE, Jan 21(Hina) - Parties of the democratic bloc in Serbia did not meet on Wednesday as scheduled to continue talks on forming a government, because Dragoljub Micunovic, representative of the Democratic Party of Zoran Zivkovic
and Boris Tadic, did not turn up.
BELGRADE, Jan 21(Hina) - Parties of the democratic bloc in Serbia did
not meet on Wednesday as scheduled to continue talks on forming a
government, because Dragoljub Micunovic, representative of the
Democratic Party of Zoran Zivkovic and Boris Tadic, did not turn up.#L#
Democratic Party vice-president Boris Tadic on Wednesday rejected the
possibility of his party supporting a proposal by the Democratic Party
of Serbia (DSS), led by Vojislav Kostunica, to form a minority
government in which his party would not be represented.
Under Kostunica's proposal, the new government would be formed by his
DSS, the G17 Plus party of Miroljub Labus and the coalition of Vuk
Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and the New Serbia (NS)
party of Velimir Ilic.
Tadic told a press conference he would propose that the democratic
bloc parties form a stable majority government on the basis of the
will of the electorate. A final decision on the matter will be brought
by his party's Main Board on Sunday.
The Democratic Party will be either in the government or firmly in the
opposition, or there will be new elections, Tadic said.
In the new Serbian Assembly, the DSS has 53 seats, the Democratic
Party 37, G17 Plus has 34, and the SPO/NS coalition 22 as has the
Socialist Party of Serbia. The strongest parliamentary party is the
Serbian Radical Party with 82 seats.
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