Kostunica goes to court over election

Supporters of the Yugoslav President, Vojislav Kostunica, have lodged a second complaint with the Serbian Supreme Court about the way last Sunday's abortive Serbian presidential election was conducted.

Serbia's Democratic Party argued that the Republic's electoral commission had been wrong to invalidate Mr Kostunica's victory on the grounds that the official turnout fell below the legal minimum of 50%.

The party said it had produced new evidence that the commission had included more than 800,000 dead or fictitious voters in its calculations - and that without them the legal threshold would have been passed.

The Supreme Court, which rejected an earlier complaint from the Democratic Party, has 48 hours in which to rule on this latest submission.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service