BELGRADE, Jan 28(Hina) - The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has not negotiated with Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) about its participation in the new government, DSS leader Vojislav Kostunica told Beta news
agency on Wednesday.
BELGRADE, Jan 28(Hina) - The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has not
negotiated with Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
about its participation in the new government, DSS leader Vojislav
Kostunica told Beta news agency on Wednesday.#L#
Kostunica was speaking in response to a New York Times article of
Wednesday which, according to the media in Serbia, said Kostunica had
announced in an interview that his party might cooperate with the SPS
so that a new government could be formed and new elections averted.
Kostunica said today that following parliament's failure yesterday to
elect a speaker, his party would not object to having those parties
that did not vote for the DSS candidate, do so next time, referring to
the Democratic Party (DS) and the SPS. "The DSS is the only party
which, wanting to elevate parliamentarism in Serbia to a higher level,
has talked with both the Radicals and the Socialists".
Kostunica said the parties of the democratic bloc would continue
negotiations on Friday, before the Serbian parliament resumes its
constituent session and once again tries to elect a speaker. Neither
of the two candidates, Dragan Marsicanin of the DSS and Gordana Pop
Lazaric of the Serbian Radical Party, were elected yesterday due to
the abstention of the DS and the SPS.
Kostunica has proposed that the DS support Marsicanin who, in turn,
would cede the post to the DS once the new government is formed.
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