Decisive elections in Serbia

Attila Palócz Szabó writes about the great significance of Serbia's upcoming parliamentary elections. "A decisive issue in this Sunday's parliamentary elections will be the direction the country takes: Will it choose confrontation with the rest of the world, cut itself off and return to those dark times when the (now dead) dictator Slobodan Milosevic was in power? Or will the electorate vote for the European spirit and closer ties with the EU? In this context it seems somewhat strange to see how Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and his party, the Democratic Party of Serbia, have distanced themselves from the pro-Western democratic forces that swept him to power only eight years ago. To maintain his ruling position Kostunica is now forced to ally himself with those radicals who were once his bitter opponents."

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