Posted on 06/28/2012 7:18:19 AM PDT by kronos77
BELGRADE, Serbia – Socialist leader Ivica Dacic won a mandate Thursday to form a new Serbian government, marking a full-scale return of the late Slobodan Milosevic's former allies to power for the first time since the autocrat's ouster in a popular revolt in 2000.
President Tomislav Nikolic formally approved Dacic as prime minister designate to lead the new coalition government that would include the Socialists, Nikolic's nationalists and a small center-right party.
Although Nikolic and his nationalists claim to have shifted from being staunchly anti-Western to pro-European Union, a new nationalist-dominated government is likely to stall Serbia's proclaimed EU membership bid and increase Russian influence in the Balkans. The nationalists are backed by the Kremlin.
"Today, Serbia is changing," Nikolic said after meeting with Dacic. "Serbian citizens voted for changes."
Serbia's Parliament still needs to formally approve the new government.
The new coalition represents another blow to Democrat leader Boris Tadic, who was ousted in the May presidential election by Nikolic. The Democrats are Serbia's biggest pro-European party.
Dacic ditched his former allies, the Democrats, after the nationalists offered to make him prime minister.
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How would you categorize the people who just got voted in? Is there any sort of a real problem with them calling themselves ‘socialists’, or what exactly?
Nationalists won the presidential elections, yet they were forced to ally themselves with socialists.
Socialists in Serbia are conservative party, not like in Western europe
Nationalists won the presidential elections, yet they were forced to ally themselves with socialists.
Socialists in Serbia are conservative party, not like in Western europe
That’s about what I figured, at least Milosevic never struck me as terribly much of a leftist and he certainly wouldn’t pass muster as a leftist in the United States.
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