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09. December 2002 - Monday |
International monitors fear deepening crisis
BELGRADE – Observers from the OSCE and the Council of Europe who monitored yesterday’s presidential elections have expressed concern over what they say is Serbia’s deepening political crisis.
The second failure to elect a president is damaging to Serbia’s credibility, said Nikolai Vulchanov, the head of the OSCE international monitoring mission.
Vulchanov told B92 today that there were a number of flaws in the election legislation, and that the lack of updated electoral rolls was also a problem.
Hrair Balian of the OSCE human rights and democratic institutions office
emphasized that not technical but political problems had led to the failure.
“Changing the number of voters would be changing the rules under which the election has taken place. This cannot be acceptable. One of the most basic principles of law is that you just don’t change the rules of the game after the game has started,” he told B92.
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