Radical Party candidate Tomislav Nikolic, who won the most votes Nov. 16 in the last failed presidential vote, says his party wants a land that unites all Serbians -- an allusion to the ideology that fueled the bloody Serb rebellions in Croatia and Bosnia supported by Milosevic.
Zivkovic blames the West for some of this hostility, suggesting that it pushed his pro-democracy coalition into making mistakes that fed disenchantment with reforms.
Political scientist Carlos Yordan says many Serbs will vote for the Radicals for the same reason that kept Milosevic in power for 10 years -- a sense of "victimization, the belief that the outside world does not understand Serbia, and a strong sense of national pride."
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