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หลังจากที่ นายกฯ โคซตูนิก่า (Vojislav Kostunica) ลาออกจากตำแหน่งด้วยเหตุผลว่า มีคิดเห็นที่ขัดแย้งอย่าง รุนแรง จนไม่สามารถร่วมทำงานต่อไปได้ กับ ประธานาธิบดี บอริส ทาดิช (Boris Tadic)
ในนโยบายโคโซโว ที่สำหรับเขา ยังคงเป็นดินแดนของ เซอร์เบีย และต้องการจะนำปัญหานี้ ควบรวม และ ต่อรอง กับ ชาติสมาชิก อียู ที่รับรองเอกราชของ โคโซโว ให้ถอนการรับรอง ก่อนการเสนอตัว เข้าร่วมเป็นสมาชิกของสหภาพของอียู ซึ่ง
ประธานาธิบดี บอริส ทาดิช ไม่เห็นด้วย และ ต้องการที่ จะเอาปัญหาเรื่องเอกราชของโคโซโวทิ้งไว้ข้างนอกก่อน แล้วหลังจากที่ได้ สมาชิกภาพของอียู ค่อยยกปัญหา เรื่องเอกราชของ โคโซโว ไปต่อรองเรียกร้อง
Serbia ruling coalition collapses
Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has said his coalition has collapsed and is calling for elections.
The move follows his failure to get his cabinet to reject closer ties with the European Union in the wake of Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
Mr Kostunica, a nationalist, has described the decision by EU states to recognise Kosovo as illegal.
Serbian President Boris Tadic has said he will call elections, but did not set a date for the poll.
“I respect the prime minister’s decision that he is no longer able to lead the government of Serbia and when I get the government’s decision, I will call an election,” he said in a statement.
“Elections are the democratic way to overcome political crises and the people are the only ones who have right to decide which is the way forward for Serbia.”
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Serbia Background Information :
President: Boris Tadic
Boris Tadic, leader of the Democratic Party (DS), first took up office in 2004. He was re-elected in 2008, once again defeating his nationalist rival Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party in a run-off.Mr Tadic, who took over as DS leader after the assassination of former premier Zoran Djindjic in 2003, backs free market, pro-European reforms and Nato membership.
He has called on Serbs to turn their backs on the nationalism of the past and to understand that only the European route will bring lasting improvements to their lives. He has pledged full cooperation with The Hague tribunal.He was born in 1958 and trained as a psychologist.There is a rift between the DS and the centre-right Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Mr Kostunica formed the DS in 1989 with Zoran Djindjic.
However, the party split and Mr Kostunica set up the DSS. Feuding between the DS and DSS has bedevilled Serbian politics ever since.
Prime minister: Vojislav Kostunica (resigned)
Serbia’s main pro-reform parties agreed to form a government, to be led by the incumbent premier Vojislav Kostunica, in May 2007 after nearly four months of talks. Parliament approved the coalition just ahead of a constitutional deadline.
The wrangling followed parliamentary elections in January, the first since the break-up of the union with Montenegro. The hardline nationalist Radical Party won the largest share of the vote but failed to gain enough seats to form a government.
The new administration includes the president’s pro-European DS, Mr Kostunica’s DSS and the G17 Plus party.
The prime minister says the coalition will seek EU entry and cooperate with The Hague war crimes tribunal. He says his government will oppose independence for Kosovo.
Vojislav Kostunica first took office in spring 2004. His coalition combined the DSS with smaller centre-right parties but excluded the DS. It relied on support from the Socialist Party of the late Slobodan Milosevic.
His government faced criticism for failing to hand over key war crimes suspects to The Hague tribunal.
Mr Kostunica succeeded Slobodan Milosevic as Yugoslav president. He was born in 1944 and is a former law lecturer.
The end of the Milosevic era brought new freedoms for the Serbian media and former pro-Milosevic outlets rushed to denounce the past.
RTS, the national, government-funded TV and radio service, aims to become a public broadcaster and state-funded local and regional media outlets are set to be privatised.
Hundreds of private TV and radio stations throng the airwaves, competing for a share of a small advertising market.
However, Serbia’s media regulator aims to bring some order to the scene. In April 2006 it awarded national TV licences to the private operators B92, TV Pink, News Corp’s Fox TV, TV Avala and a licence share to Kosava-Happy TV.
It also granted five national radio licences – to B92, Radio Index, Radio S, Roadstar and Radio Focus.
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