Dacic:Tadic is in no position to make demands

BELGRADE - Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dacic has said that Boris Tadic is in no position to make demands concerning the New Democratic Party's (NDS) entry into Serbia's next government.

Commenting on the statement that the NDS will not be part of any government that includes the SPS, "because that party has nothing to offer apart from a Machiavellian approach to politics," Dacic stressed that it was the "pinnacle of political blindness."

The SPS won almost three times as many votes as the NDS at the parliamentary election on March 16, that is 44, while the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) led by Aleksandar Vucic won by a landslide, taking 158 seats, Dacic pointed out.

Tadic lost the presidential election to SNS leader at the time Tomislav Nikolic two years ago, and the coalition centred around the NDS won 18 seats in the parliament at the latest election.

The people are the supreme political judge and Tadic's slate barely made it over the election threshold, and they echieved that thanks to the League of Socialdemocrats of Vojvodina headed by Nenad Canak, Dacic underscored.
"It was the people's answer to the question whose policy was bad," the outgoing prime minister noted. "I would like to point out that it was precisely after Tadic's departure that Serbia achieved a historic success - changed its international image, started the accession talks with the EU and improved its friendship with Russia, China and other countries," Dacic stated.

Tadic's attitude towards the SPS is particularly hypocritical, since he had no problem with them while they were part of the same government for four years and when they supported him in the second round of the presidential election against Nikolic, he...