Bojan Kostres

Secretary General of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) Bojan Kostres said that taking part in the polls was the only way to oppose the current government.
According to this statement, Kostres said that "the boycott of the elections is reducing the number of turnout and, therefore, enabling a greater number of MPs to the Serbian Progressive Party".

The demonstration was organized on the occasion of the National Day of Catalonia.

From the LSV, an opposition Serbian party, Beta agency was able to confirm that their delegation led by Secretary-General Bojan Kostres was in Barcelona.

Bojan Kostres, the vice president of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, LSV, said that citizens of Catalonia and the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina both have the right to decide on their own fate.

Serbian opposition parties have rejected the proposition of the former Democratic Party president, Bojan Pajtic, to adopt a "radically different approach" to political struggle and boycott parliament, as they did during the era of President Slobodan Milosevic.

The LSV party general secretary, Bojan Kostres, has asked Serbia's state organs to "put an end to the hooligan rampage."

A Russian official's suggestion that Serbia's assembly should influence that in Montenegro to dissuade the country from joining NATO has met with condemnation.

High ranking official of the League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) and opposition MP Bojan Kostres said that "Russia wants to create a factor of instability in the Western Balkans out of Serbia."

Bojan Kostres, the vice-president of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, LSV, told BIRN that his party is planning to submit a motion to parliament to re-adopt the Law on Accountability for Human Rights Violations, known as the Lustration Law.

First woman elected to chair committee on defense

BELGRADE -- Marija Obradović (SNS) was on Thursday elected to chair the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Internal Affairs - the first woman to hold this office.

BELGRADE - A woman, Marija Obradovic of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), has been appointed chair of the Serbian parliament Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs on Thursday for the first time in history of Serbian parliamentarism.

BELGRADE - Bojan Kostres, member of the Serbian parliament's permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), has been denied entry to the Russian Federation until 2017, according to Belgrade-based daily Politika reports.