BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has requested an emergency parliament session so the government and the opposition could agree on EU and Kosovo policies.
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has requested an emergency parliament session so the government and the opposition could agree on EU and Kosovo policies.
Source: Beta, Tanjug
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The Progressives said in a statement that Tadić “signed capitulation of his own policy he has been leading with yesterday’s statement that there is a possibility that Serbia will not get the candidate status or a date for the beginning of negotiations this year”.
The SNS has called on the president to say how long he has known “what real conditions set before Serbia and its citizens were and why you have been deceiving us the entire time”.
“We also demand from the government to publicly announce all the conditions set before Serbia, to accept failure of their own policy and call early parliamentary elections,” the opposition party stressed in the statement.
The Progressives added that the state must not renounce Kosovo or its institutions in the north of the province, while at the same time it had an obligation toward the Serbian citizens to continue the EU accession process, improve standard of living and create better living conditions.
The SNS stressed that the Democratic Party (DS) and Tadić had been trying to convince the citizens that SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić’s call for early parliamentary elections were allegedly violating Serbia's stable European pathway and reducing the country's chances of getting the EU candidate status in October.
The SNS pointed out that they had given up on their request to hold early parliamentary elections precisely because they understood the importance of getting the EU candidate status.
“Today that same Boris Tadić tells us that all that is not going to happen and that the government has been deceiving the citizens all along, because it turns out that the candidate status does not depend on our state policy at all, but allegedly on other numerous factors,” the SNS pointed out in the statement.