DSS: Time for parliamentary elections

He said that the councilors of four north Kosovo municipalities were forced to sign the statement bearing the coat of arms of the illegally proclaimed republic of Kosovo, which was covered with a sticker that was to be peeled off later in Pristina. Krstimir Pantic, the winner of northern Kosovska Mitrovica mayoral elections, refused to take the oath of office and resigned as deputy director of the Office for Kosovo, he said. The local elections in Kosovo were a deception by the international community as it guaranteed their status-neutrality, Pantic told Belgrade daily on Monday. "They gave us status-neutral materials, but as soon as we handed them in to OSCE, the symbols indicating Kosovo's statehood were placed on them," Pantic explained. Samardzic said that it is strange that certain Serb officials have said that Pantic's resignation is irrelevant bearing in mind that the entire tactics of the victory of the citizens' initiative Srpska was based on his leadership. He underlined that the latest events in Kosovo have brought into question Belgrade's main argument referring to the normalization of the relations with Pristina on the EU pathway. "The campaign of deception will last in the forthcoming years as long as it has effects on the citizens of Serbia, but this cannot last long since Serbia will be stuck on the outskirts of the EU," Samardzic said. This and poor economic, social and moral situation in Serbia are calling for new parliamentary elections, he underlined, adding that it should be checked whether the popularity of the ruling coalition, primarily the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), is real since the program they presented in the 2012 elections is different from the one they implement today. It should be checked whether people have really voted for Kosovo's s secession from Serbia with the help of the Serbian government, the country's indebtedness of three-four billion euros, procrastination of the solution to the constitutional issue of the province of Vojvodina and whether they are satisfied with the over social situation in Serbia, Samardzic said.