It's 3 p.m. on October 5. Hundreds of thousands of people pack the streets in front of the Yugoslav Parliament on Bulevar Revolucije.
Riot police stand nervously smoking cigarettes or tapping their batons against plastic shields.
The deadline set by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia for Slobodan Milosevic to recognize their candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, as the country's new president is at hand. In the center of the street, opposition politicians speak from a flatbed truck. They are restless. Many of them drove 10 hours to get to Belgrade, some even walked. They didn't come to hear any more speeches from politicians.