Kostunicas tidsfrist har gått ut, og opposisjonen stormar parlamentet ved
hjelp av ei "dredging machine".
Demonstrantar bussa inn til Beograd blir leia av femtekollonistar med
Djindjic i spissen for å okkupere parlamentet, som alle er enige om at dei
tre sosialistpartia vann kontrollen over i valet. Alt dette angivelig fordi
Milosevic angivelig har juksa til seg to prosentpoeng frå Kostunica i
presidentvalet.
Dei kallar det vist "demokratisering".
Asgeir Bjørkedal
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--- Protesters enter Parliament buildingThursday, 5 October 2000 12:13 (ET)
Protesters enter Parliament building
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=125041
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 5 (UPI) - The Yugoslav parliament building and the building of state-run Serbian Television in central Belgrade were on fire on Thursday afternoon. Leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia said demonstrators had seized the parliament building.
Protesters commandeered a dredging machine, used for digging, to break through the parliament's front door as a huge crowd charged the building.
The whole area is under a pall of black smoke teargas. The protesters are trying to force the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who they insist lost the presidential election last month to Vojislav Kostunica.
Police also threw tear-gas canisters near the Zeleni Venac market place at a column of people heading for the plateau outside the parliament where DOS leaders had called a protest rally that they hoped would strike a death blow to the Milosevic regime.
In Washington, President Bill Clinton said the people of Yugoslavia have made their opinions clear and should not be held back by Milosevic.
"What we want for the Serbian people is what we want for all people - the right to freely choose their own leaders." But Clinton insisted the United States will not intervene. "I don't believe it is an appropriate case for U.S. military intervention," he said. Milosevic has not issued any public comments.
The mass demonstrations follow a decision Wednesday night by a federal constitutional court annulling the first round of the presidential election. A court judge was reported Thursday to have said this meant that new elections will be organized before the incumbent President Milosevic's current mandate expired in July next year.
Opposition leaders say there would be no more elections for federal presidency as Kostunica they say had won the election the first time round with a convincing majority.
Commenting on the decision of the constitutional court, DOS election manager Zoran Djindjic described it as "the pinnacle of cynicism and yet another piece of cheating" on the part of the governing parties.
"The constitutional court tried to expand the theme and conceal the responsibility of the people who falsified the election results," Djindjic who heads the big Democratic Party, said.
DOS cannot pass lightly over this new deception, he said. When Milosevic saw that his various ploys were of no avail he first wanted to declare a state of emergency but eventually settled for annulling the election through the constitutional court, Djindjic said.
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