Kostunica resigned: I did everything I could for Serbia

The president of the Democratic Party of Serbia, Vojislav Koštunica, submitted his irrevocable resignation from the party position today.

"This is the moment when, for the first time in its history, the party does not enter the Assembly of Serbia. That is why it is my obligation to withdraw and submit an irrevocable resignation from the position of president of the Democratic Party of Serbia. I did everything I could for Serbia and that my duty required." , according to Kostunica's statement to the Beta agency.

In the parliamentary elections on Sunday, the DSS did not pass the census for the first time since its foundation in 1992, and the Presidency of the DSS accepted Koštunica's resignation at today's session.

Kostunica, as announced, will transfer all powers to the vice-president of the party, Aleksandar Popović, B92 learns.

As B92 learns, Popović will lead the party to the extraordinary party assembly, which should be held by the summer.

According to Belgrade media, the leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia has decided to resign from the position of party president, which he will inform the Presidency of his party about today.

The former president of the FRY and prime minister of Serbia for two terms, decided that after a major election failure, he would practically withdraw from the daily political arena and hand over the leadership of the party he founded in 1992.

After the defeat in the extraordinary parliamentary elections, as well as in the elections in Belgrade, the decision to resign was also made by the leader of the United Regions of Serbia (URS), Mlađan Dinkić, who said yesterday that he was retiring from politics, and that he would start his career as a professor or as a musician.