SNS offers SVM to enter government

BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has offered to the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) to join the new government, SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic has said.

“We want this coalition and we want to work together,” Vucic said after a meeting with SVM leader Istvan Pastor at the SNS head office.

“We have not discussed the issue of majority in the Vojvodina Assembly. The greatest burden of the provincial government is the issue of legitimacy,” Vucic told reporters after the meeting with SVM leader Istvan Pastor.

Pastor told reporters that the party will remain determined to have state secretaries, while Vucic said that the SNS has nothing against the SVM having ministers in the future government.

Both Vucic and Pastor said that they have not discussed the change of the Vojvodina government.

The meeting was held at the SNS head office in Belgrade, and the SVM delegation headed by leader Istvan Pastor also comprised Balint Pastor and Laslo Varga.

Aside for Vucic, the SNS was represented at the meeting by party deputies Nebojsa Stefanovic and Goran Knezevic and officials Jadranka Joksimovic and Maja Gojkovic.

Asked whether the SNS will make the same offer to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the New Democratic Party (NDS), Vucic said that the SNS Presidency made a unanimous decision to offer the SVM to join the government, while there were different opinions about whether the new government should include the NDS and the coalition led by the SPS.

“Only in terms of the SVM, there were no different opinions,” Vucic said.

Vucic said that he and SPS leader Ivica Dacic are scheduled to confer on Tuesday, adding that he does not know whether Dacic...