The Press daily said this was their first meeting in more than a year since their conflict, which had prompted Dinkic to leave a reshuffled government, adding unofficially that Dinkic had asked for his party in the new government the ministries of the economy, finance, regional development and local self-government, the National Investment Plan, and the office of a deputy PM without a portfolio.
The Nin weekly, which hit newsstands today, ran an interview with Dinkic, saying that in an informal talk after the interview, he produced an alleged note in writing from Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) president Ivica Dacic to the effect that "the Russians don't want Tadic for prime minister."
Asked why he did not show the note to Tadic, Dinkic said they were not communicating.
By the end of the week, Tadic's DS is expected to meet with Dacic's SPS, Cedomir Jovanovic's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Dinkic's URS. The meeting could decide if these four parties and the coalitions they lead will form the new government or show that the new government is likelier to be led by the Serbian Progressive Party, which won the most seats in the new parliament.
Dacic's SPS and Tadic's DS were the main partners in the previous ruling coalition, which also included Dinkic's party. Over the past year, Dinkic openly criticised the then President Tadic of usurping the prime minister's office as the leader of the DS.
As the second partner in the new government, Dacic's SPS has already said it is against the new government being compromised by Tadic's DS as the main party and only Jovanovic's LDP, without Dinkic's URS. Dacic has said his party does not want the new government to depend on the LDP because of its position on Kosovo and the Bosnian Serb entity.
The SPS and the URS recently agreed to jointly take part in further negotiations on government formation.