Kostunica submits irrevocable resignation

BELGRADE - Leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Vojislav Kostunica submitted an irrevocable resignation on Wednesday due to the party's defeat in the parliamentary elections that were held on March 16.

"This is the moment when, for the first time in its history, the party fell out of the Serbian parliament. Due to that, it is my obligation to withdraw and submit an irrevocable resignation as the DSS leader. For Serbia, I did everything I could and everything that the duty bound me to," Kostunica said in a statement to the media.

The DSS got 4.24 percent of the vote for the National Assembly, but the party managed to secure seats in the Assembly of the City of Belgrade, having got 6.39 percent of the vote in the local elections that were held on the same day.

Kostunica said that the DSS was the only party that stood for election with the program, both political and economic, that should have enabled the country's economic recovery and development, protection of state and national interests, as well as the preservation of the cultural and spiritual identity of the Serbian people.

"In line with the electoral will of citizens, that Serbian voice, which is based on our well-known critical approach toward the EU integration, and the idea of political neutrality, will not be heard in the Serbian parliament any more," he noted.

An absolute majority decided in the elections that Serbia should embark on the road that threatens to turn it into a colony of Washington and Brussels and jeopardize its freedom, he noted.

Such position of Serbia will inevitably cause its further partition, decline of the Serbian economy, rise in unemployment and fall into debt slavery, he said.

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