Support for Milosevic

Belgrade - More than 1

Belgrade - More than 1.5 million people have signed a petition supporting Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's candidacy in presidential elections to take place later this month, a top official of Milosevic's party said yesterday.

Mr Gorica Gajevic, the secretary general of the Socialist Party of Serbia, told reporters that 1,593,825 people in Yugoslavia had supported a renewal of Mr Milosevic's mandate in a petition submitted yesterday to the federal electoral commission.

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