PM rules out early parliamentary election

PM rules out early parliamentary election

NOVI PAZAR -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was in Novi Pazar on Monday where he said there would be no early elections held on the state level.

Speaking in this southwestern town, he stated that Serbia was "halfway towards betterment" and announced that "if the good good trend in the public finances continued" public sector wages and pensions "will be increased."

"We have passed the hardest part. All the numbers, in terms of public finances, are good in April as well," Vucic said as he met with local residents.

The prime minister said that "if the trend continues, public sector wages and pensions will be increased by the end of the year."

Vucic added that Serbia "has to be placed on a firm foundation," and that this was what his government "has been successfully doing so far."

Considering that Novi Pazar and the Raska District have a large Bosniak (Muslim) minority, he addressed "citizens of Muslim faith" to tell them that "only together can we make progress," and that he was ready to, with that goal in mind, "talk to all Bosniaks in Serbia and in the region."

He added that "those who think that Orthodox Christians and Muslims can live separately, or in such a way that some are not there" fail to realize how much damage they do to their own people.

Vucic then said that "Serbs and Bosniaks have lived together for centuries and will continue in the future."

He also "announced the solving of open problems" in Novi Pazar - where he was on Monday made an honorary citizen - adding that "whatever problem there is we can solve it together and together make a modern city, where people will have more jobs and know that hatred leads nowhere."