Serb Socialists Promote Milosevic for President
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Slobodan Milosevic’s party has started gathering signatures to nominate him for the presidency of Serbia, even though he is on trial for war crimes and is in ill health.
The former Yugoslav leader, who served two terms as Serbia’s president in the 1990s, is barred from running again by the constitution. Serbs will vote for a new president Sept. 29, the first time since reformers toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Branko Ruzic, a vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, said the required 10,000 signatures would be submitted to Serbia’s Electoral Commission on Tuesday.
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