BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The potential kingmaker in forming the next Serbian government says he may ditch his alliance with the country's main pro-European Union party and turn to pro-Russian nationalists instead.

The Socialist leader, Ivica Dacic, said Wednesday the nationalists are offering him to become the prime minister in the next government, while in the Cabinet led by the pro-EU Democrats he and his party officials would only be ministers like in the outgoing government.

Dacic, who heads the leftist party formed by late Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic, says: "Why would we be in someone's government, if we could lead it?"

Neither the Democrats nor the nationalist Progressive Party won enough votes in Serbia's parliamentary elections in May to rule alone and are trying to lure Dacic's Socialists to form a coalition government.