Ex-Army Chief OKd as Serbia President Hopeful

Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic’s army chief, who led troops in the 1999 Kosovo conflict, became the 11th candidate in Serbia’s presidential election after a state commission complied with a court ruling allowing the candidacy.

Serbia’s election commission declared Nebojsa Pavkovic a candidate for the Yugoslav republic’s top job, overturning its earlier dismissal of his candidacy because he had failed to get the required 10,000 signatures. The Serbian Supreme Court had ruled that the commission failed to consider a complaint Pavkovic filed against the candidate selection process.