Mr Tadic's Democratic Party (DS) and allies won 67 and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and partners, led by Ivica Dacic, won 44.

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His problem is that he runs a fractious minority government, which relies on the votes of 22 deputies from Mr Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.

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Alliance spokesmen were sure that new strikes on Milosevic's Tito-era villa, on the broadcast studios of state-owned Serbian TV, and on the 23-story tower housing his Socialist Party of Serbia and his daughter's radio and TV stations were going to undermine Milosevic's domestic support.

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