Serbia votes today in the first round of a presidential election expected to come down to a choice between two senior figures in the reformist alliance which ousted Mr Slobodan Milosevic.
The vote marks the start of a new power battle among former members of the anti-Milosevic movement and may also determine the fate of pro-market reforms undertaken since Mr Milosevic was toppled as Yugoslav president in October 2000.
Pollsters say Yugoslavia's President Vojislav Kostunica and its Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus will emerge ahead of nine other candidates to qualify for a run-off two weeks later. Mr Kostunica is tipped to win the second round.
The election is to choose a successor to Milan Milutinovic, whose five-year term expires at the end of the year.
The last remnant of Milosevic's regime still in high office, he is expected to join his former patron at the UN war crimes court which has indicted him for atrocities committed in Kosovo.
