SARAJEVO, November 22 (RIA Novosti) - Josip Broz, a grandson of the former Yugoslavian communist leader Josip Broz Tito, has been elected chairman of a newly-formed Communist Party of Serbia, local media reported.

Delegates from a number of communist parties, which gathered at a unification congress in the city of Novi Sad in northern Serbia on Sunday, agreed to form a new party and elected its leadership.

"I am certain that we will be able to collect 10,000 signatures to register our party," local media quoted Josip Broz as saying.

Broz said the new Communist Party would be a modern leftist party and support Serbia's integration in the European Union.

He said that the program of the party would inherit the experience of its predecessors but would take into account modern realities.

"We accept everything that was good and reject everything that was bad," Broz said.

"For instance, our party will respect the freedom of religion in contrast with the former Communist party whose members had to be atheists," the politician added.