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Demostat: EPP prevents debate on Serbian elections Demostat 2–3 minutes _____ The European Parliament (EP) will not debate on the Serbian December 17 elections next week, as there was no agreement among the political groups for the issue to be put on the agenda, Demostat learned from sources in the EP. According to Demostat’s source, the European People’s Party (EPP) opposed the debate the most. The EPP has the most seats in the EP and Standing Rapporteur for Serbia Vladimir Bilcik is a member, but members of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Austrian People’s Party (OVP) and Italy’s Forza Italia were also against it. “There will probably be no debate on the elections in Serbia before the publishing, in February, of the final report of the international observation mission, which also comprised members of the European Parliament. There wasn’t enough support from the political groups for this subject to be on the agenda of the plenary session, and the EPP was particularly against it,” said Demostat’s source in Brussels. Demostat recalled that an MEP from the Renew Europe political group, Klemen Groselj, told N1 on Tuesday that a debate on the Serbian elections would be on the EP agenda even before the final ODIHR report, and that the MEPs would also react to the Serbian government officials’ attacks on the members of the ODIHR election observation mission, especially that against Andreas Schieder. On the other hand, EP Standing Rapporteur for Serbia Vladimir Bilcik said no international investigation into the latest elections in Serbia should be expected and that it was up to the Serbian institution to remedy possible election irregularities. “I am not expecting and it would be unusual to expect any international investigation in relation to the elections,” Bilcik told Voice of America (VoA), Beta reported. -- http:www.antic.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/028901da4553%247984f650%246c8ee2f0%24%40gmail.com.
