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YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: DOS START ELECTION CAMPAIGN

(7 Sep 2000) Serbo-Croat/Nat XFA The leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) set off from the Yugoslav capital Belgrade on Thursday to kick off their election campaign in Sabac, western Serbia, some 70 kilometres west of Belgrade. Around one thousand supporters gathered in the centre of the town to greet the leaders of the 18 coalition parties. One of the DOS leaders, Democratic Party president Zoran Djindjic, told the crowd that the Yugoslav elections on September 24 were not about party leaders but about people. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) "These elections are not about Milosevic, Kostunica, Nikolic (the Serbian Radical party candidate). These elections are not about the Socialist Party, the Yugoslav left or the DOS. They are not about the international community. These elections are about you" SUPER CAPTION: Zoran Djindjic, Democratic Party Leader Most opinion polls suggest that DOS candidate Vojislav Kostunica has a substantive lead over President Slobodan Milosevic. According to a reliable poll by the Institute of Social Sciences, Kostunica may get 35 percent of the votes in Serbia, while Milosevic could get 23 percent of the votes. In the same poll, 46 percent of the respondents said they expected Milosevic to remain in power after the elections. These contradictions show that Serbs expected Kostunica to win the majority of the votes but that they expected Milosevic to resort to electoral fraud in order to stay in power. The opposition parties hope their pre-election campaigning will convince people that their votes can oust the regime. Belgrade has rejected observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the ballot, inviting instead monitors from "friendly nations" such as Russia, India and China. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...