Volume 6 Number 40 - Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
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Volume 6 Number 40 - Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 |
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BELGRADE - Amid political turmoil between Serbia’s pro-Western president and conservative prime minister, former President Slobodan Milosevic’s Socialist Party was deciding yesterday whether to back a presidential impeachment drive. Socialist leader Ivica Dacic said the party’s board was likely to support the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party — which, together with the Socialists, ruled Serbia under Milosevic — in a drive to impeach President Boris Tadic. Tadic’s opponents want to oust him from office for calling on Kosovo’s Serbs to vote in the province’s Oct. 23 elections. “We fundamentally back our colleagues from the Radical Party,” Dacic told AP. “It’s important that the impeachment demand is discussed in Parliament.” The Socialists’ decision would be announced later yesterday, Dacic said. The impeachment drive followed Tadic’s appeal this week to Kosovo Serbs to take part in the upcoming vote so the Serb minority could retain a political role in the province now run by a UN mission and NATO-led peacekeepers. Tadic’s appeal outraged the Radicals, who alleged the president violated the constitution in his appeal. It also pitted Tadic against conservative Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, whose Cabinet, along with the influential Serbian Orthodox Church, has backed a planned Kosovo Serb boycott. Dacic conceded that Tadic’s impeachment was unlikely since pro-democracy groups hold a majority in Parliament. Radmila Trajkovic, a Kosovo Serb politician, said Tadic has “weakened the Serb community in Kosovo” and claimed his appeal would benefit ethnic Albanian separatist demands for an independent Kosovo. “But it is human to make mistakes,” Trajkovic said, urging Tadic to “talk once more with Kostunica and patch things up.”
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