Serbians vote in close-run election

January 21, 2007

Polling stations close 8 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) and the first projections of the result are expected before midnight. The new government faces having to implement more painful economic changes and deal with two major international issues: the future of the breakaway Kosovo province and the handover of top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic. The Democratic Party says arresting him is a top priority. The Radicals, who consider Mladic a hero, are unlikely to deliver him.