The informal speculations that lasted for almost a year have been ended today: MP and a senior official of the Socialist People’s Party (SNP) Aleksandar Damjanovic has been expelled from the party during a party’s executive committee’s conference call, CdM unofficially learns.
“At today’s 23rd session (conference call), the SNP Executive Committee adopted a decision on dismissing Aleksandar Damjanovic’s from all positions he occupies in the party and on its behalf, including his MP’s term of office, because of violating the SNP Statute… The executive committee concludes that Damjanovic has no right to publicly act on behalf of SNP. Representatives of the media and the authorities in charge of conducting elections shall particularly bear in mind this fact,” the party said in a statement.
At 16 October general elections SNP was a member of the Key coalition and won three seats in the Parliament. MPs for the party are its president Srdjan Milic, Danijela Pavicevic and Damjanovic. SNP requires Damjanovic to give up his seat.
CdM has not been able to ask Damjanovic whether he will do that or perhaps continue acting as an independent MP (although he is boycotting the Parliament along with other opposition MPs), since Damjanovic has not answered phone calls.
Pobjeda recently reported that Damjanovic would establish his own party soon.
Damjanovic, who resigned from his position on the SNP’s executive board, has been acting and making decisions independently for more than seven months now. A source close to Damjanovic disclosed that talks with those of the like mind within SNP but also in some other parties were ongoing and that their results should be known in the next ten days. Three months ago, Damjanovic informally negotiated with one of the DF leaders, Milan Knezevic, but those discussions did not result in any concrete agreement, unless a common position on cooperation within the opposition.
Cooperation with DF has not stopped then. Damjanovic appeared on DF’s “alternative assembly” in Murino, where he supported the decisions of the “assembly of elected people’s representatives” not to recognise the Parliament’s decision on joining NATO, but to call a referendum on that issue when the conditions are met. The session was also attended by low-ranking SNP officials, mostly opponents of the party president Srdjan Milic.
If he forms his own party, Damjanovic will be the fourth SNP senior official, after Predrag Bulatovic, Milan Knezevic and Aleksa Becic, to go his own political way due to disagreement with Milic.
