Vesna Pesic submitted her resignation as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) caucus in the Serbian parliament on Thursday and announced she would become an independent MP, which the LDP assessed as “unfair” but said Pesic would not be excluded from the party.

Pesic told Tanjug that she had left the LDP deputy club and that she would change her status to that of an independent member of parliament, adding that she had notified Serbian parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic about that.

She said she had decided on such a move after a statement of the LDP Political Council to the effect that that her and the party's views differed on key issues, and added that the reason was not only the differences, but also a constatation of the party's body that she had caused harm to the LDP.

LDP's Political Council Chairman Rajko Danilovic said in a statement for Tanjug that Pesic had not informed the LDP about her leaving the MP group, adding that they had no information as to whether she intended to leave the party.

The Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) reported, however, that Pesic, who had recently resigned as president of the LDP Political Council, leaving the deputy club was actually leaving the LDP as well.

“Certainly, nobody will ask for her resignation as MP or exclude her from the LDP. The LDP is the only European party in our parliament and political life. It does not use such means as a way of settling the differences with its political opponents. We do not exclude anyone from the party,” Danilovic underlined.

Pesic was the founder of several humanitarian and human rights organizations and was also a Nobel Prize nominee.