Elections in Serbia and the future of Kosovo

Erich Rathfelder writes of Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica: He "likes to describe himself as a conservative democrat. But such descriptions remain inappropriate in this country. Independent political coordinates have developed in Serbia's political spectrum." Recently, Kostunica has been taking an increasingly chauvinistic tone, suggests Rathfelder, which is why some of his fellow citizens already consider him a "modernizer of nationalism." Rathfelder's election predictions: "The Radical Party will regain its position as the strongest, with 35 percent. With some 20 percent of the vote for his Serbian Democratic Party, and with his coalition partner, the Serbian Renewal Movement, surely getting into Parliament with about 10 percent, Kostunica will be in the position to manoeuvre between the extremes - and to form a government again. And that is exactly the role he wants... In Serbia's future, there is no getting around Kostunica."

» full article (external link, German)
More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » South East Europe, » Serbia
All available articles from » Erich Rathfelder

» To the complete press review of Friday, January 19, 2007