>From: "Darko Nadic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Rival Early Yugoslav Vote Results At 0450 GMT > >BELGRADE, Sep 25, 2000 -- (Reuters) Rival Serbian political parties issued >their own preliminary results on Monday from Sunday's Yugoslav elections, >based on a partial count. > >Both supporters and opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic claimed >they were ahead in the presidential election. > >An opposition representative on the Federal Election Commission said it was >likely to issue the first official preliminary results on Tuesday afternoon. >Yugoslav parliamentary and local elections in Serbia were also being held. > >In contrast to elections in western European countries, no exit polls were >conducted and no official turnout figure was given after the end of polling. >The main opposition bloc put the turnout figure in Serbia at 78 percent. > >There were 7,861,327 eligible voters in Yugoslavia, of whom 444,130 were in >Montenegro, Serbia's smaller sister republic. There were around 10,000 polling >stations in all. > >A candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright without >having to contest a second round. > >Here is a breakdown of preliminary results as published by the different >political parties: > >- Leading opposition politician Zoran Djindic said that with 310,909 votes >counted, Milosevic's main rival, Vojislav Kostunica, had 49.6 percent while >the Yugoslav president had 36.8 percent. > >- The largest opposition group, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, said >that, with ballots counted at 45 percent of polling stations, Kostunica had 57 >percent to Milosevic's 33 percent. > >- Kostunica predicted "certain" victory for himself, saying that, according to >data from 1,237 polling stations, 54.05 percent of votes had been for himself >and 33.81 percent for Milosevic. > >- The ruling Socialist Party said that, with more than 940,000 votes counted, >Milosevic was leading Kostunica by 44 to 41 percent. Deputy Prime Minister >Nikola Sainovic said ballots cast at 2,478 polling stations had been counted. > >- The Socialist Party's coalition partner, the Yugoslav Left (JUL) of >Milosevic's wife Mirjana Markovic, said that according to data from 1,984 >polling stations, Milosevic was leading with 56.3 percent of the vote against >31.4 percent for Kostunica. Milosevic is the joint JUL/SPS candidate. > >- The state news agency Tanjug quoted the ultra-nationalist Radical Party, >once a member of Milosevic's coalition but now estranged, as saying that, with >635,941 votes counted, Milosevic had 40.44 percent while Kostunica had 49.55 >percent. > >- The Radical Party later issued more results, saying that with 1,937,734 >votes counted at 4,358 polling stations, Kostunica led with 53.53 percent to >Milosevic's 37.91 percent. > >- A local non-governmental monitoring institute, the Centre for Free and >Democratic Elections (CESID), said that, with 308,002 votes counted, Kostunica >had 56.82 percent to Milosevic's 34.23 pct. > >- In Montenegro, Serbia's smaller sister republic, the Western-leaning >leadership boycotted the vote but pro-Belgrade parties organized polling >stations nonetheless. The pro-Belgrade Socialist People's Party said that, >with about a quarter of Montenegro's votes counted, Milosevic had more than 90 >percent. They put the turnout at 130,000, or 30 percent, while Montenegrin >authorities put it at around 24 percent. > >(C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or >redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited >without the prior written consent of Reuters Limited. > > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------- >Advertisement: > >New Customers at Vitamins.com get a FREE bottle of St. John's Wort >and take $10 off your first order of $10.01 or more! Just enter the >discount code SAINTJ at checkout to get your free gift. Shop Now! >http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/HealthCentral ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE >HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff>STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > ><P> > ><DIV> ><DIV> ><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=+1>Rival Early Yugoslav Vote >Results At 0450 GMT</FONT> ><P>BELGRADE, Sep 25, 2000 -- (<A href="http://www.reuters.com/" >target=_blank>Reuters</A>) Rival Serbian political parties issued their own >preliminary results on Monday from Sunday's Yugoslav elections, based on a >partial count.</P> ><P>Both supporters and opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic >claimed they were ahead in the presidential election.</P> ><P>An opposition representative on the Federal Election Commission said it was >likely to issue the first official preliminary results on Tuesday afternoon. >Yugoslav parliamentary and local elections in Serbia were also being held.</P> ><P>In contrast to elections in western European countries, no exit polls were >conducted and no official turnout figure was given after the end of polling. >The >main opposition bloc put the turnout figure in Serbia at 78 percent.</P> ><P>There were 7,861,327 eligible voters in Yugoslavia, of whom 444,130 were in >Montenegro, Serbia's smaller sister republic. There were around 10,000 polling >stations in all.</P> ><P>A candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright without >having to contest a second round.</P> ><P>Here is a breakdown of preliminary results as published by the different >political parties:</P> ><P>- Leading opposition politician Zoran Djindic said that with 310,909 votes >counted, Milosevic's main rival, Vojislav Kostunica, had 49.6 percent while >the >Yugoslav president had 36.8 percent.</P> ><P>- The largest opposition group, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, said >that, with ballots counted at 45 percent of polling stations, Kostunica had 57 >percent to Milosevic's 33 percent.</P> ><P>- Kostunica predicted "certain" victory for himself, saying that, >according to data from 1,237 polling stations, 54.05 percent of votes had been >for himself and 33.81 percent for Milosevic.</P> ><P>- The ruling Socialist Party said that, with more than 940,000 votes >counted, >Milosevic was leading Kostunica by 44 to 41 percent. Deputy Prime Minister >Nikola Sainovic said ballots cast at 2,478 polling stations had been >counted.</P> ><P>- The Socialist Party's coalition partner, the Yugoslav Left (JUL) of >Milosevic's wife Mirjana Markovic, said that according to data from 1,984 >polling stations, Milosevic was leading with 56.3 percent of the vote against >31.4 percent for Kostunica. Milosevic is the joint JUL/SPS candidate.</P> ><P>- The state news agency Tanjug quoted the ultra-nationalist Radical Party, >once a member of Milosevic's coalition but now estranged, as saying that, with >635,941 votes counted, Milosevic had 40.44 percent while Kostunica had 49.55 >percent.</P> ><P>- The Radical Party later issued more results, saying that with 1,937,734 >votes counted at 4,358 polling stations, Kostunica led with 53.53 percent to >Milosevic's 37.91 percent.</P> ><P>- A local non-governmental monitoring institute, the Centre for Free and >Democratic Elections (CESID), said that, with 308,002 votes counted, Kostunica >had 56.82 percent to Milosevic's 34.23 pct.</P> ><P>- In Montenegro, Serbia's smaller sister republic, the Western-leaning >leadership boycotted the vote but pro-Belgrade parties organized polling >stations nonetheless. The pro-Belgrade Socialist People's Party said that, >with >about a quarter of Montenegro's votes counted, Milosevic had more than 90 >percent. They put the turnout at 130,000, or 30 percent, while Montenegrin >authorities put it at around 24 percent.</P> ><P>(C)2000 Copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or >redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited >without >the prior written consent of Reuters Limited.</P></DIV></DIV> > ><hr> >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<br> >---------------------------------------------------<BR> >Advertisement:<BR> ><BR> >New Customers at Vitamins.com get a FREE bottle of St. John's Wort<BR> >and take $10 off your first order of $10.01 or more! Just enter the<BR> >discount code SAINTJ at checkout to get your free gift. Shop Now!<BR> >http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/HealthCentral<BR> ></BODY></HTML> > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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