SERBIA Will Milosevic be given a symbolic seat in Parliament?

The hard-line Radical party won 81 seats in weekend elections.
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- Jailed former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and another accused war criminal could become members of Serbia's parliament after their extreme nationalist allies swept weekend elections, according to results released today.
The Serbian Radical Party, which supported Milosevic's Balkan war campaigns, won 81 seats in Sunday's ballot for the 250-seat parliament, far more than the pro-Western parties that toppled the former Yugoslav president three years ago.
Milosevic of the Serbian Socialist Party and Vojislav Seselj of the Radical Party appeared at the top of each party's candidate list. Both men are in custody at The Hague on war crimes charges.
But the parties could decide to symbolically appoint them to seats for propaganda purposes when the new parliament convenes in early January.
Disillusionment
The results indicated strong public disillusionment with the pro-Western leadership that has ruled Serbia since Milosevic's ouster in 2000.
"The success of the Radicals is mainly due to failures of the outgoing government," said Vojislav Kostunica, the former Yugoslav president who succeeded Milosevic.
The Radicals have also focused on the devastated economy and from deep anti-West feelings generated by the NATO bombing of Serbia for its crackdown in Kosovo in 1999.
With more than 90 percent of ballots counted, Serbia's State Election Commission said the conservative Democratic Party of Serbia won 53 seats, while the pro-Western Democratic Party that dominated the outgoing government won 37 seats.
The Radicals offered to form a new government with the Democratic Party of Serbia, which did not respond to the overture but in the past has rejected such a coalition.
Milosevic, who presided over four Balkan wars, has been on trial at The Hague since February 2002 on 66 counts of war crimes, including genocide.
Seselj, the leader of the Radical Party, is accused of allowing paramilitary troops under his control to murder and torture non-Serbs during the Balkan wars.