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Natasa Micic president from 5 January next year! |
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NATASA MICIC
date of birth: 11/8/1965
place of habitation: Uzice
occupation: lawyer
party: Civic Alliance of Serbia
function: President of the National Assembly
Chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Issues
deputies' group: DOS - Reform of Serbia
committee: The Committee on Constitutional Issues
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Elections Not Successful
The representative of Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID), Zoran Lucic, reported this evening at 9PM press conference that it could be said with certainty the repeated elections for Serbian president were not successful.
Lucic said the turnout was about 45 per cent, that is, about 2.950.000 voters with voting rights.
Vojislav Kostunica won 1.7 million votes (58 per cent), Vojislav Seselj 1.050.000 votes (36 per cent) and Borislav Pelevic won about 100.000 votes (3.4 per cent).
According to CeSID’s information, there were about 2.7 per cent invalid voting papers.
That means Serbia did not get the president this time either. The president of Serbian Assembly,
Natasa Micic, will take the position over as an acting
president on 5 January next year.
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44.8 Per Cent Turnout - CeSID
Belgrade, Dec. 08, 2002 - About 2.922.000 voters cast their ballots at Serbian presidential elections, which stands for 44.8 per cent of the electorate. This is the information from CeSID press conference.
According to CeSID’s estimate of the electoral results, 1.539.000 (45.9 per cent) citizens voted in central Serbia, 699 000 (42.5 per cent) in Vojvodina, 649.000 (45.4 per cent) and 35 000 (35.8 per cent) in Kosovo.
Some 2.7 per cent of the polling papers were invalid.
Presidential candidate of Democratic Party of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica, won 1.691.000 votes, that is, 57.9 per cent of the votes. In central Serbia, Kostunica won 867.000 votes (56.3 per cent), in Belgrade 430.000 votes (66.2 per cent), in Vojvodina 380.000 votes (54.5 per cent) and in Kosovo he won 14.000 votes (40.7 per cent).
The candidate of Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, won 1 053 000 votes, that is, 36 per cent. Seselj won 570.000 votes (37 per cent) in central Serbia, in Belgrade 184.000 (28.4 per cent), in Vojvodina 280.000 votes (40 per cent), while in Kosovo he won 20.000 votes (56 per cent).
The candidate of Party of Serbian Unity, Borislav Pelevic, won 100.000 votes, that is, 3.4 per cent of the votes.
Pelevic won 65.000 votes in central Serbia (4.2 per cent), 14.000 votes in Belgrade (2.2 per cent), 20.000 in Vojvodina (2.8 per cent) and 1000 votes in Kosovo (2.7 per cent of votes).
Kostunica predicts general election
Presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica said today that the failure of today’s election would not ward off early parliamentary elections but would bring them forward.
Kostunica blamed the failure of the election on the large number of invalid entries on the electoral rolls, a figure which his party earlier estimated at 600,000.
“You could say that they could go into the Guinness Book of Records,” he added.
Speaking to media after casting his own vote, Kostunica said he was very aware of the level of dissatisfaction in Serbia.
“I can’t tell you anything new, simply because everyone knows everything. They know why these elections are important, they know why the government is trying to show that they’re not important, they know why the international community is committed to showing that the government is not right. They know who is responsible for stability and who for instability in Serbia. They know the state of the electoral rolls,” said Kostunica.
Djindjic unperturbed
Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic told media after voting today that he had done so because he believed in fulfilling all his civic obligations.
“I’ve done my part, I’ve voted and we’ll see what will happen,” he said, shortly after 6.00 p.m., as it became obvious Serbia would not get a president today.
“I don’t think it will be so bad for the image of the country if these elections fail because, after the adoption of the Constitutional Charter we have solved another problem,” said the prime minister.
He added that he had been faced with a difficult choice in the ballot box.
“We didn’t have our own candidate and I think that none of the three candidates, in some sense, deserve my vote, but you can’t always choose what you want in life, sometimes you have to choose the least bad option,” said Djindjic.
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Source: IIS
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