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Belgrade Mayor vows cooperation with Zemun coalition

Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas said that he will cooperate with the new SNS-led coalition in power in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun. He also said that he expects the government to be formed soon in the other wildcard Belgrade municipality of Voždovac.

Nikolić accuses Democrats of smear campaign

Opposition SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić late on Tuesday accused the ruling Democrats (DS) of having launched a smear campaign against his party. Nikolić said that the Democrats used Belgrade daily Blic and controversial Montenegrin businessman Ratko Knežević for that purpose.

SNS slams govt., wants “New Deal”

Deputy leader of the opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vučić says the government should call for early elections. He justified this by saying that the authorities are not able to cope with the crisis.

Zemun elects new municipal leader

Members of the Zemun assembly have elected a new municipal president, vice-president and members of the municipal council. The ruling coalition—made up of the Serb Progressive Party (SNS), the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)—elected Branislav Prostran (SNS), a graduate in management and private businessman, to the office of municipal president. He was formerly Zemun municipal manager.

“SNS official will head Zemun govt.”

Serb Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolić said that the municipal president of Belgrade’s Zemun municipality will be from their party. He announced that a meeting will be held on Monday regarding the formation of the local administration in this municipality.

SNS emerges as most popular party

Less than a year after it was established, the opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) has taken over the ruling Democrats (DS) in the polls. The SNS was formed when several Serb Radical (SRS) top officials broke off to established their own party.

SNS: No protests if Mladić arrested

Serb Progressive Party deputy leader Aleksandar Vučić says that the party will not hold a protest if and when Ratko Mladić is ultimately arrested. He told Belgrade daily Danas that officials from his party had protested the arrest of Radovan Karadžić because of the manner in which it had been carried out.

A new political mould

Serbia’s nationalist party has modernised

The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), a more moderate offshoot of the extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS), has eclipsed its parent and stands level in opinion polls with President Boris Tadic’s Democratic Party (DS), which dominates the national government. Allied to other legal changes, the SNS and DS now look poised to dominate national politics, creating a two-party system that holds out the prospect of more stable and coherent governments, of either liberal pro-EU or nationalist complexion.

Belgrade and its municipalities have customarily been DS strongholds but municipal elections in the first half of June gave victory in the districts of Zemun and Vozdovac to the SNS, which is led by former SRS presidential candidate, Tomislav Nikolic, who broke with the SRS in October of last year. On July 8th it was reported that the SNS was poised to begin coalition talks in the two districts with the Socialist Party of Serbia, thus bringing an end to DS rule in the district. …

Opposition SNS denounces “all crimes”

The opposition Serb Progressives (SNS) say they condemn all crimes committed in the territory of former Yugoslavia “in the strongest terms”. “The SNS condemns in the strongest terms all crimes that took place in the territory of the former SFRJ [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] during the civil wars. And also, the greatest crime after the Second World War – the crime of murder and expulsion of several hundred thousand Krajina Serbs from Croatia,” said the party’s legal team member Nikola Selaković.