BELGRADE, Dec 3 (Hina) - Slobodan Milosevic, an indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal and president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), has supported in a hand-written letter the candidacy for Serbia's president of "the joint
candidate of patriotic forces", Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, SPS vice-president Bogoljub Bjelica said at a press conference in Belgrade on Tuesday.
BELGRADE, Dec 3 (Hina) - Slobodan Milosevic, an indictee of the UN
war crimes tribunal and president of the Socialist Party of Serbia
(SPS), has supported in a hand-written letter the candidacy for
Serbia's president of "the joint candidate of patriotic forces",
Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, SPS vice-president Bogoljub
Bjelica said at a press conference in Belgrade on Tuesday. #L#
Milosevic stressed in his letter that "nominating a joint candidate
of patriotic forces to run in presidential elections is a decisive
step in achieving national unity about the need to topple the
current puppet regime which is transforming Serbia into a colony".
Seselj, who attended the press conference at Milosevic's former
cabinet at the SPS headquarters, said that Milosevic's support to
his candidacy was "the culmination of the successful joint action
in the fight against the DOS regime", and that Serbia was divided
into "patriots and those who are destroying it".
Other candidates running for the post of Serbia's president, to be
elected on December 8, are the incumbent Yugoslav President,
Vojislav Kostunica, and the leader of the Party of Serb Unity
(founded by Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan), Borislav Pelevic. For the
elections to succeed, 50% of Serbia's electorate of some 6.5
million should go to the polls next Sunday.
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