Dragan Sutanovac

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party (DS) and the New Party will form a coalition for the upcoming local elections in Belgrade.

At Friday's joint press conference with Vesna Rakic Vodinelic, president of the New Party Council, DS leader Dragan Sutanovac, who will run for mayor, announced Vodinelic would head the coalition's electoral list.

Sasa Jankovic, head of the opposition Free Citizens movement and a runner in the April 2 presidential elections, called on citizens, NGOs, political parties and unions to join a protest in Belgrade on Friday on "the right of citizens to fair and free elections".

Leaders of the DS party and the PSG movement Dragan Sutanovac and Sasa Jankovic should travel to Brussels on August 24, Vecernje Novosti is reporting on Friday.

The two opposition leaders will go there for a meeting with European Parliament official and rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister.

The Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) has dropped plans for electoral cooperation with the Democratic Party (DS).

According to a statement issued on Wednesday, the reason is DS leader Dragan Sutanovac's "public offer to (President) Aleksandar Vucic to cooperate on constitutional changes."

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.

Opposition Democratic Party leader Dragan Sutanovac says picking Ana Brnabic for PM is "nothing but a government reshuffle that the DS cannot possibly support."

Sutanovac told the daily Blic on Monday that this was about "a reconstruction with the same coalition and the same people."

Opposition Democratic Party leader Dragan Sutanovac says picking Ana Brnabic for PM is "nothing but a government reshuffle that the DS cannot possibly support."

Sutanovac told the daily Blic on Monday that this was about "a reconstruction with the same coalition and the same people."

The First Basic Court in Belgrade has ruled in favor of Dragan Sutanovac in a defamation case he brought against Bratislav Gasic.

Gasic will have to pay RSD 200,000 to Sutanovac for damaging his honor and reputation when he said the latter eavesdropped on former Serbian President Boris Tadic. He will also have to pay the legal expenses of the trial.

New Belgrade's Hala Sportova on Sunday hosted a gathering that marked the beginning of former Citizens' Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic's presidential campaign.

Those who showed up at the packed sports venue included the numerous public figures who previously signed an appeal to Jankovic to run, as well as officials from several opposition parties.

Following the sharp rise in tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over the train sent to the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, Dragan Sutanovac, leader of Serbia's opposition Democratic Party, accused Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic of making "warmongering statements" that are "fuelling further conflicts" and bringing Kosovo's small Serb minority into danger.