Failed elections trigger Serbian political crisis

Serbian presidential elections failed for the third time in a year today, triggering a major political crisis in the Balkan republic.

An anti-Western ultranationalist with close ties to Slobodan Milosevic led the ballot, underlining Serbians’ discontent with the pro-Western government that ousted the dictator in 2000 and the republic’s drift back to Milosevic’s nationalism that triggered the Balkan wars in the 1990s.