Aleksandra Jerkov

"Novosti" writes that DS Leader Zoran Lutovac, who is committed to both things, has started losing the closest associates.

Opposition and ruling party MPs clashed in Serbia's parliament on Tuesday about potential wrongdoings in the forthcoming parliamentary elections broadly scheduled for late April.

Zoran Zivkovic, president of the opposition New Party, said that his party, like most citizens in Serbia, feared electoral fraud.

Serbia's opposition Democratic Party, DS, says it is facing sustained harassment ahead of important test elections in the province of Vojvodina loosely set for April or May.

December saw the dramatic arrest of 80 people in an anti-corruption swoop, which included several members of the Democratic Party, Aleksandra Jerkov, the party spokesperson and an MP, noted.

A DS party spokeswoman welcomed on Monday the criminal charges against a person suspected of making death threats against DS leader Bojan Pajtic on Facebook.

Aleksandra Jerkov added, however, that there are similar cases that remain unsolved.

Democrats and Progressives to hold rallies on April 25

BELGRADE -- The Serb Progressive Party (SNS) and the Democratic Party (DS) will hold two rallies on the same day - April 25.

Parties in row over "consulting firms" hired by state

BELGRADE -- Deputies from the opposition DS party on Tuesday asked the government to provide information about hiring former British PM Tony Blair "and other consultants."

On the other hand, the ruling SNS party wanted to know about the lobbying firms the DS hired abroad while they were in power.

BELGRADE - The police have arrested head of the Democratic Party (DS) group in the Automonous Province of Vojvodina Assembly and former director of the public enterprise Zavod za izgradnju grada Novi Sad Borslav Novakovic and another three individuals on suspicion that they have damaged the city of Novi Sad budget by EUR 4 million.