Serbs vote in parliamentary elections

Serbs had the pick today of voting Slobodan Milosevic’s allies into power and returning to international isolation or backing pro-democracy parties that ousted the authoritarian leader but later failed to live up to voters’ expectations.

Around 6.5 million people were eligible to cast ballots in elections for Serbia’s 250-member parliament. The voting was crucial for the stability of the republic and the whole of the Balkans, still recovering from four wars fomented by Milosevic and his loyalists in the 1990s.