Belgrade: Seeing the scattered mandate the major political parties got, former Prime Minister of Serbia, Zoran Zivkovic stated yesterday that whatever coalition forms the new government, it will not last long. He asserted that the best option for Serbia would be to call new elections, because if a new government was formed at this stage, it would not last more than a year.

Zivkovic predicted, “At the next elections, I expect the section of the conservative electorate, which has been let down by Kostunica, which thought that he was at least a little pro-European, will stop voting for him and move to the Democratic Party (DS).”

According to the former prime minister, “some younger people who voted for the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will realize that Europe is the future, and they will change sides. The SPS’s current position, where it was choosing which coalition to join, was the result of a coincidence as. They do not have the democratic capacity to help Serbia enter the EU any quicker.

During Zoran Dindic’s leadership of the DS, Zivkovic said, there had never been “any such stupid idea as to form a government with the SPS.” Zivkovic, who was one of Dindic’s closest colleagues, dismissed the mere notion that Dindic could have considered forming a government with Slobodan Milosevic’s SPS in 1993 at the height of the war and with inflation spinning out of control.