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Kostunica confirms his party`s break with Serbia coalition
Belgrade, June 24: Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has confirmed his party has dropped out of Serbia`s ruling coalition, after a year-long rift that has hampered progress in democratic reforms in the Balkan country, a daily reported today.
Belgrade, June 24: Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has confirmed his party has dropped out of Serbia's
ruling coalition, after a year-long rift that has hampered
progress in democratic reforms in the Balkan country, a daily
reported today.
The move puts his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) formally in the opposition in Serbian politics. "No coalition agreement binds us any more," the daily Danas quoted Kostunica as telling yesterday's meeting of the DSS central leadership.
The party was one of 18 reformer groups in the DoS coalition that overthrew former president Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
Kostunica accused his main rival Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and his Democratic Party (DS) of "violating the coalition accord not only once." He charged them with using "Milosevic-style methods to implement quasi-western, but authoritarian and anti-democratic plans."
Serbia's coalition of reformers split into two factions a year ago - one backing Kostunica, one for Djindjic - after Serbian authorities handed Milosevic over to the UN War Crimes Court on June 28, 2001, a move hotly opposed by Kostunica.
Bureau Report
The move puts his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) formally in the opposition in Serbian politics. "No coalition agreement binds us any more," the daily Danas quoted Kostunica as telling yesterday's meeting of the DSS central leadership.
The party was one of 18 reformer groups in the DoS coalition that overthrew former president Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
Kostunica accused his main rival Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and his Democratic Party (DS) of "violating the coalition accord not only once." He charged them with using "Milosevic-style methods to implement quasi-western, but authoritarian and anti-democratic plans."
Serbia's coalition of reformers split into two factions a year ago - one backing Kostunica, one for Djindjic - after Serbian authorities handed Milosevic over to the UN War Crimes Court on June 28, 2001, a move hotly opposed by Kostunica.
Bureau Report