http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2165478.ece
Voters in Serbia prepare to shrug off Milosevic
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade
Published: 19 January 2007
Millions of people go to the polls in Serbia this weekend in an
election seen by many as the country's first real chance to break away
from its recent past and embrace a democratic future. The elections are
the first since Serbia became an independent state after Montenegro
voted for independence last May, and the first since the former leader
Slobodan Milosevic died last March.
The outcome of the vote, in which nationalists are pitted against
pro-democracy and reform-orientated parties, will be decisive in
marking the road that Serbia will take. A victory for reformists would
make the handover of Ratko Mladic to The Hague war crimes tribunal a
real possibility, a long-standing demand from the EU which has
suspended accession talks with Serbia over its failure to give up the
former Bosnian Serb army chief.
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