Deputy leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Zarko Obradovic announced that the party would call on Serbian President Boris Tadic to appoint Ivica Dacic as prime minister in the next term.

The SPS truly expects its cooperation with the Democratic Party (DS) to continue after the forthcoming elections, and will propose that Ivica Dacic (SPS leader) should be appointed prime minister, Obradovic said in an interview for the Sunday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Press, adding that this does not imply that the SPS is not satisfied with the way current Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic is performing his office because the party has excellent cooperation with Cvetkovic.

He expressed expectation that the SPS would draw a double-digit score in the elections which should be organised either late in March or early in April 2012, and added that he hopes his party would be the strongest party after the DS in the new government coalition. Obradovic also said that the SPS believes Tadic and the DS would agree for Dacic to be appointed prime minister.