Second attempt to elect president of Serbia on Sunday

BELGRADE , Dec 7 (Tanjug) - Citizens of Serbia will on Sunday again try to elect a new president of the republic, having to choose among three candidates this time - Vojislav Kostunica, Vojislav Seselj and Borislav Pelevic.

In order for the fourth presidential elections in Serbia since the introduction of the multiparty system in 1990 to be successful it is necessary for more than fifty percent of the electorate to vote in the first round. The candidate who receives more than 50 percent of the votes of the total number of voters that cast their votes will become Serbia's new president.

Presidential elections - the government's political trickery, Ruzic

Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Vice-President Branko Ruzic said on Thursday that the Dec 8 repeated Serbian presidential elections are "political trickery of the government which wants to conserve the existing state of affairs".

SPS has no candidate of its own and has accepted the proposal of its president, Slobodan Milosevic, on trial before the tribunal in The Hague, to back Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj as the opposition's joint candidate, Ruzic told the press.