Democratic Party leader Boris Tadic on May 30 said he was ready to take the helm of a cabinet whose basic goals would be fighting poverty, unemployment, corruption and crime.

"The Democratic Party will make any effort to create a majority around the goals of a future cabinet. That, however does not mean that other parties should not try to form a majority where the Democrats will not participate, but we will definitely not abandon our goal as it is our essential value," Tadic said at the party Main Committee.

He stressed that the party would not give up its strategic goals - modernization, reforms and creation of a society the citizens would be proud of. Tadic remarked that he would enter a cabinet only with the parties of a similar orientation.

Tadic, who was defeated by Serbian Progressive Party candidate Tomislav Nikolic in the presidential runoff, said after the vote Serbia was no longer the same country, but stressed that the vote results made the Democratic Party an unavoidable factor in Serbia's political events.