Belgrade: Showing no concern on the radicals’ protest threat, the acting Belgrade Mayor Zoran Alimpic stated yesterday that “for now” he had no intention of rescheduling the Belgrade assembly’s constitutive session set for July 14.

The Serb Radical Party (SRS), the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), however, once again submitted a request to Alimpic to prepone the date of the first constitutive session.

Alimpic stated that he could ultimately decide to reschedule the session if he felt the situation that had led him to schedule the session for July 14 in the first place, had changed. The acting mayor confirmed that he had received a request yesterday from the SRS, the SPS-PUPS-JS coalition and the DSS-NS coalition to bring the session forward, adding that such moves could have a backlash.

“I don’t understand why they’re protesting, I haven’t broken the law. It’s senseless,” Alimpic said. He said, it was the “duty of every normal Belgrade citizen“ to try and stop “a bad government that will do harm to Belgrade“ from coming to power. He said that he could not stop the Serb Radical Party (SRS) assuming the reins of power, but that he could set a later date for the assembly’s constitutive session. “I can’t stop it, but I’m trying to at least put it off a bit,” said Alimpic.