Mirko Sarovic, favourite to win the presidency of the Bosnian Serb republic in next week's election, dismisses calls for his party to be banned [due to alleged continued links with its founder Radovan Karadzic and other war crimes suspects ] in Lukavica, a Serb suburb of Sarajevo November 3, 2000. [The International Crisis Group think-tank and Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, have both called for a ban on the party. ]