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If the opposition joins before the next parliamentary elections, I think it is important to create a common front that will be the answer to that and that the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) go to those elections together, he told RTS. Ivica Dacic, leader of SPS.
When asked if he also asked the party for its opinion on a joint appearance with the SNS, Dacic replied on the program “Questionnaire” that it was not.
“As long as I am president of the SPS, I will make strategic decisions,” he said, adding that, unlike some voters in his party, “political” positions, such as his at the head of the Assembly, are more important to him than positions. director and ministerial.
“For the director and the ministers, I just had problems, I need a political scenario,” says Dacic, who was also asked how he deals with the fact that the SPS has received 200,000 fewer votes in previous elections than before.
“The SPS did not face a small redistribution of power, but a tsunami, first on October 5 and then with the coming to power of Vučić. We survived and today we have 10.5 percent support, and some parties already they don’t exist. Where are they? ” , and where am I? Dacic asked.
Commenting on the opposition’s request to separate the parliamentary and presidential elections announced for April 2022, Dacic asked why they did not ask for it in 2012, when former Serbian President Boris Tadic resigned to merge the parliamentary and presidential elections. .
When asked about the “expulsion” of the director of Srbijagas, Dusan Bajatovic, from the meeting with the Minister of Mines and Energy, Zoran Mihajlovic, he replied that he did not want to comment on something that belongs to the domain of the Government, and that neither Bajatovic nor Mihajlovic they asked for his opinion.
“It would be better to try to solve problems, than to constantly look for them where there are none, and that is why I am open to help, but as president of the legislative body, I do not want to interfere in the executive branch,” said Dacic. Everyone must rise above the opinions of others and must work in the interest of the state, he added.
“It is not my role to have a conversation between parties”
It is not my role to lead the inter-party dialogue, I was elected president of the National Assembly, the highest legislative body, we have our own agenda, and everything else is outside the regular activities of parliament, said Dacic, emphasizing that the continuation of the inter-party dialogue has yet to be discussed. He stated that this is an issue that he will address in the next year.
Dacic said he will not measure his success based on whether and how “any dialogue” will be organized.
“I did not start that dialogue, it started in the previous call and we have yet to discuss its continuation,” Dacic said. According to him, this should be addressed by the new Dialogue Ministry, Gordana Čomić, who said it was good to be in that position.
He recalled that the former Speaker of the Assembly, Maja Gojković, responded to McAllister’s letter and that in the old parliament it was agreed that the European Parliament would assist in the inter-party dialogue between the government and the opposition in two phases: before and after the elections. elections.
“So the situation has changed, some of the parties that participated in those talks are no longer in the Assembly and we still have to discuss when and in what format the dialogue will continue,” Dacic emphasized.
He added that on November 24 the European Integration Committee will be constituted, headed by the Vice President of the Assembly, Vladimir Orlić, who will deal with topics such as the Progress Report of the European Commission.
“But the agenda and the activities of the Assembly are determined according to our state interests, and not on the basis of an imposed agenda,” Dacic said, adding that the continuation of the inter-party dialogue should be expected next year.
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