YUGOSLAVIA: FIFTEEN SERBIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES FORMALLY CHOSE VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA TO BE THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS

Record ID: 584812

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: FIFTEEN SERBIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES FORMALLY CHOSE VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA TO BE THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS
  • Date: 7th August 2000
  • Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (AUGUST 7, 2000) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SHOWING THE TWO OPPOSITION CANDIDATES WHO WILL BE RUNNING IN THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AGAINST THE PRESENT YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC (3 SHOTS) 0.15 2. MV: VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, PRESIDENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SERBIA AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE UNITED OPPOSITION ENTERING THE NEWS CONFERENCE OF HIS PARTY 0.24 3. VARIOUS: NEWS CONFERENCE HELD BY VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA (3 SHOTS) 0.37 4. VARIOUS OF BELGRADE CITY SCENES WITH PRE-ELECTION POSTERS OF VARIOUS PARTIES (3 SHOTS) 0.55 5. MV: ZORAN DJINDJIC, LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARRIVING FOR THE MEETING OF THE UNITED OPPOSITION 1.04 6. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) ZORAN DJINDJIC LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAYING: "We will see, at the moment the most serious candidate is Mr. Kostunica but today or in the next two or three days we will decide." 1.12 7. VARIOUS OF THE MEETING OF THE 15 OPPOSITION PARTIES TO DECIDE ON THEIR JOINT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (7 SHOTS) 1.48 8. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SERBIA AND THE JOINING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE 18 OPPOSITION PARTIES SAYING: "I will say yes, but I will say yes more because of the public, its demands, expectations and hopes, much more than the parties taken all together including my own." 2.04 9. MV: GENERAL BELGRADE STREET SCENE 2.09 10. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) VOX POP, MAN SAYING: "If the opposition goes into the elections divided they stand no chance, but if they the whole opposition is united than I believe there is a lot of chance." 2.18 11. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) VOX POP, MAN SAYING: "If nothing is changed now, who knows when there will be our next chance for that." 2.26 12. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) VOX POP, A YOUNG MAN SAYING: "I hope things will be better."/ YOUNG MAN LEAVING 2.31 13. YOUNG MAN LEAVING Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAES09P2JR1MKBWRSXCR520JO30
  • Story Text: Fifteen Serbian opposition parties formally chose
    Vojislav Kostunica to be their presidential candidate against
    Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.



    Representatives from 15 opposition parties met in
    Belgrade on Monday (August 7) to name Vojislav Kostunica as
    their joint candidate in the upcoming elections.

    Dusan Mihajlovic, leader of the New Democracy party,
    told reporters the decision had been made unanimously.

    Vojislav Kostunica, the leader of the Democratic Party
    of Serbia said that he hopes to meet the demands and
    expectations of the public.

    The appointment came after the country's biggest
    opposition party, the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO),
    nominated its own rival candidate on Sunday. He is Belgrade
    mayor Vojislav Mihajlovic, who other opposition leaders fear
    could end up splitting the anti-Milosevic vote.



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