Vucevic: Demand for transitional gov't will not be accepted

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday protests in the country would ultimately result in a demand for a transitional government.

Commenting on Sunday's rally in Belgrade's Slavija Square, Vucevic said the number of people who had gathered there was undeniably high.

"There were a lot of people there and anyone who would say otherwise would not be telling the truth. By saying a lot of people, I mean that, when someone gathers 25,000 to 30,000 people or 35,000 people, it is a large gathering, and I do not know why the organisers or the participants should be ashamed of such figures," Vucevic told Pink TV.

Ultimately, everything will come down to a demand for a transitional government, he said.

"They want to portray the institutions as dysfunctional, they want to paralyse the state and to show that, for that reason, a transitional government is the way out of a situation like this one. But there is one problem there - they will never be given the mandate by the president of the Republic to form a transitional government. That is what they were also told yesterday, and I will tell you that we from the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will never vote for such a government," he said.

Vucevic added that elections were the only option that could be discussed and that SNS MPs would never vote for any transitional government.