Opposition Coalition Names Candidate to Face Milosevic
Formalizing the breach in opposition ranks, a coalition opposed to Slobodan Milosevic nominated its own presidential candidate Monday, the third challenger to Milosevic for Yugoslavia’s highest office.
Most of the opposition parties in Serbia, the dominant Yugoslav republic, endorsed the candidacy of the leader of the small, center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica, a widely respected moderate nationalist.
Kostunica’s nomination came a day after the Serbian Renewal Movement broke ranks with the rest of the democratic opposition and put forward its own candidate, Vojislav Mihajlovic, the mayor of Belgrade, the capital of both Yugoslavia and Serbia. The move is likely to split opposition votes and diminish chances of success.
The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party on Monday also put up a candidate, Tomislav Nikolic.
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