Movement for Turnaround

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Serbia Against Violence coalition on Wednesday submitted to the national electoral commission an electoral list of the same name, supported by around 20,000 signatures.

Friday's joint meeting of opposition parties in Serbia has been summoned on the request of the "Movement for Turnaround" [Pokret za preokret"], which claims that the parliamentary elections held in April were not held in a free and democratic atmosphere.

Serbian opposition parties have slated the Defence Minister, Bratislav Gasic, for allowing a local authority to use soldiers to serve alcoholic drinks - rakija [fruit brandy] and boiled wine - at a pop concert in the minister's home town of Krusevac on December 31.

The event was a concert by the popular folk singer Svetlana "Ceca" Raznatovic.

After several hours of debate in the Serbian National Assembly on Monday, 139 of the 169 MPs present voted for lawyer Mladen Nenadic as the new chief prosecutor for organised crime.

But the Assembly failed to elect a new chief prosecutor for war crimes because none of the five candidates attracted the required majority of 126 votes.