Milosevic wins seat in Serbian parliament

[Martin]

Belgrade ? Jailed former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and another accused war criminal became members of Serbia's parliament after their extreme nationalist allies swept weekend elections, according to results released Monday.
The Serbian Radical Party, which supported Mr. Milosevic's Balkan war campaigns, won 81 seats in Sunday's ballot for the 250-seat parliament, far more than the pro-Western parties that toppled the former Yugoslav president three years ago.
Mr. Milosevic of the Serbian Socialist Party and Vojislav Seselj of the Radical Party appeared at the top of each party's candidate list so each has a right to a seat.

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[JackStorm]

Ugh...those aren't very positive news...sad to see that the extremists have so much support. Seems things haven't been going very well since Prime Minister Djindjic died. Not that they were all that good before he died.

 

[DamnDirtyApe]

I thought Milosevic was currently in jail as a result of war-crimes charges?!?

Edit:

"Both men are in custody at The Hague on war-crimes charges and cannot attend sitting of parliament, but their parties could decide to appoint them to seats for propaganda purposes when the new parliament convenes in early January."

I suspect this is the result of radical leaders using anti-Western sentiment to their advantage. Seems you can't go wrong these days blaming the USA.

 

[ReiAyanami]

i hope they don't try to cleanse the ethnic albanians again

 

[Colt45]

I kind of expected it.
The west makes some empty promises to Serbia, not to mention how the war crimes charges seem a little one sided...

And a pro western party will just end up losing kosovo i metohija, most likely...


Косово је Србија

 

[Zebo]

Did'nt milosevic get a raw deal? I mean he was dealing with thugs and terrorists. I bet if bush would have been in power he'd have understood. Sure he a had a few "collateral damage" war is hell as we're finding out.

Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Don't they have the coolest sounding names. Klingon like. Definity very marshall sounding.