>-But, if the parliament is more important than the presidential election
>-why did the opposition protested against one fraud and not against the
>-other??? Are the Serbian democrats so short sighted??? I think this
>-report raises a serious question. What will happen, since Milosevic´s
>-party has majority in the parliament and the parliament is more powerful
>-tan the president? Or isn´t the parliament so important?
I really don't know what the future holds. My pessimistic prediction is that Kostunica, with the help of imperialists, will play a Yeltsin: strengthen presidential powers & diminish the role of the parliament. (I may be wrong; I've heard more optimistic notes from some.) Many a Serb probably thought that with Milosevic out, Serbia would be treated as a "normal" country by the West & could reverse its economic decline, but they will be disappointed. Milosevic as an individual politician has never been a problem for Western imperialists (except he had to be treated as the Official Enemy in ideological discourse for mass consumption in the West). What matters is how to expand NATO, neoliberalism, & new hinterlands for the capitalist core.
>-Here I agree with you. Mr. Milosevic has nothing to do with socialism, but
>-the "democratic opposition" can be even worse. Serbain chauvinism coupled
>-with neoliberal economics can have a devastating result...
Of course, the ideological orientation & political practice of Milosevic as one politician are really besides the point for imperialists, as I said above. (Don't you guys remember Nixon in China???) If the KLA had been fervent socialists rather than fervent patriarchs & reactionaries that they are, in all likelihood, the West would have supported Milosevic against them. The West knows how to choose "the lesser of two evils" according to its own economic & geopolitical criteria. Many leftists in the West, however, would rather say a "pox on both houses," so as to maintain the beautiful soul: the beautiful soul "lives in dread of besmirching the splendour of its inner being by action and an existence," as Hegel criticized in the _Phenomenology of the Spirit_. Imperialists could care less about the beautiful souls of the Left, though. In their eyes, anyone who opposes imperial ventures out of whatever motive -- socialist, nationalist, anarchist, environmentalist, indigenist, religious pacifist, black nationalist, contrarian, etc. -- is _by definition_ supporting the Enemy (in this case Milosevic); Remember how MLK was treated by the U.S. government. And, objectively speaking, imperialists are correct, at least in short terms: (objective, not subjective) opposition to imperialists attacks = (objective, not subjective) support of those who are attacked.
Yoshie