The coalitions around Boris Tadic's Democratic Party and Ivica Dacic's Socialist Party of Serbia agreed at a meeting in Belgrade on May 9 to continue their political cooperation and support presidential candidate Boris Tadic in the second round of the presidential election, on May 20.

Democratic Party candidate Boris Tadic said in Bor that the forming of the parliamentary majority will be discussed after the presidential run-off vote.

Socialist Party of Serbia leader Ivica Dacic said that there have been no talks about the ministries and the post of prime minister. He said that his priority is to continue working in the Interior Ministry and that his possible function in another position will be discussed after the second round of the presidential election.

Dacic said that they did not talk at the meeting about who might join this coalition in the forming of the majority in the Serbian parliament. He also said that he cannot negotiate government with Tomislav Nikolic, because this government would include Vojislav Kostunica, who advocates a break with the EU.

Dragan Markovic, the president of United Serbia, a party from the coalition around the Socialists, said that he, Ivica Dacic, Jovan Krkobabic, the leader of the third member of this coalition - the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia, and Tadic, did not talk during the meeting about whether the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Cedomir Jovanovic, would be the foreign minister in the new government.

Markovic said that Jovanovic could be a minister, but that he would have to change his policy, which Markovic does not expect.