World News 22-09-2000 Fears of Poll-Rigging In Yugoslavia who: Slobodan Milosevic what: Accused of plot to fix election where: Belgrade when: Yesterday snippet: "Slobodan Milosevic`s plan to fix the Yugoslav elections was exposed yesterday," reports Gillian Sandford in The Express, "when a ballot sheet was found with his name already circled three days before the vote." "The slip was found in in the letterbox of an electoral monitoring group, the Centre for Free Elections (Cesid)," reports The Guardian, in a report also credited to Ms Sandford. "The slip, bearing the official stamp, carries the name of the five candidates for president. Slobodan Milosevic is circled." In Belgrade, more than 150,000 people came together on Wednesday night in support of Mr Milosovic`s leading opposition candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, who described Yugoslavia as "a hostage of a single man," reports Vesna Peric Zimonjic in The Independent. "We all want to live in an average country," said Mr Kostunica. "Nothing like the past decade that brought us wars, refugees, isolation, sanctions, criminal Nato bombing". Meanwhile, reports the BBC, Yugoslavia`s prime minister Momir Bulatovic has said that President Milosevic "will stay in power for the time being, whatever the outcome at the polls", because according to the constitution, his term of office does not end until the middle of 2001. [... more]

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