Serbian Socialist Party to make
strong challenge in elections

The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) will contest 250 seats in 
elections to be held on December 28, this year.

The Party decided, in accordance with the electoral law that the 
SPS party ticket will have the name: Socialist Party of Serbia — 
Slobodan Milosevic. Mr Milosevic will be No 1 on the party 
ticket. He remains a politician with the highest personal rating 
in Serbia because of his courageous and successful struggle 
against the NATO kangaroo court in The Hague.

The socialists will be fighting to win at least 20 percent of 
seats in the parliament.

Slobodan Milosevic addressed a session of the Head Committee of 
the SPS by phone from his prison in The Hague.

Mr Milosevic stressed that, "we, all together, have a duty to 
struggle for victory and win. It is in the interests of the whole 
people, of every family and each individual.

"In these elections the Serbian people have a historic duty to 
choose the truth. Three years ago I warned citizens of Serbia 
what was going to happen if the exponents of foreign powers, that 
is, of their governments, come to power. Everything happened 
exactly as I said — nobody can deny it today.

"The Socialist Party of Serbia has a duty and the ability to 
gather and mobilise forces that will reverse the processes which 
are the sad reality of Serbia — in the interests of peasants, in 
the interests of workers, intellectuals, in the interests of 
Kosovo martyrs, in the interests of everyone who lives off his 
own work — as well as in the interests of the Serbian people, 
their national dignity and the dignity of every citizen."