YUGOSLAVIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION PARTIES ISSUE PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF GENERAL ELECTION

Record ID: 584887

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION PARTIES ISSUE PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF GENERAL ELECTION
  • Date: 26th September 2000
  • Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 25, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SCU/MV POLICE; POLICE HOLDING BATONS STANDING BETWEEN OPPOSITION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS; MAN CURSING AND SPITTING AT POLICE CORDON; SLV SCENE (4 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SLV POLICE VAN TAKING UP POSITION 0.19 3. SLV POLICE CORDON MOVING TOWARDS PEOPLE; GROUP OF MEN RAISING MID FINGER TOWARDS POLICE; POLICE CORDON/ SLV SCENE (5 SHOTS) 0.37 4. SOUNDBITE (English) ZORAN DJINDJIC, LEADER OF SERBIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, SPEAKING SAYING "Until now we have results from about fifty per cent of electorate in Serbia, and the landslide is clear. We have for our candidate Mr. Kostunica and democratic opposition victory about seventy three per cent. It means victory in the first round. We will wait for final results and then we will know how things are developing in Serbia." 1.05 5. MV NIKOLA SAINOVIC, SOCIALIST PARTY SPOKESMAN ENTERING PRESS ROOM AT SPS HEADQUARTERS 1.15 6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) NIKOLA SAINOVIC, SOCIALIST PARTY SPOKESMAN, SPEAKING SAYING I will tell you only valid votes for presidential candidate. There are 14,414 votes from two hundred and ninety nine polling stations. Presidential candidates received the following results according to the order on the voting lists. Miodrag Vidojkovic, four hundred and ninety eight or nought point forty one per cent, Dr Vojisalv Kostunica, thirty six thousand nine hundred and ninety five or thirty per cent, seventy six per cent, Slobodan Milosevic sixty thousand four hundred and sixty or fifty point twenty eight percent, Vojislav Mihailovic one thousand five hundred and ninety six or one point three three per cent and Tomislav Nikolic four thousand eight hundred and sixty five or four point five per cent." 2.25 7. SLV SUPPORTERS OF OPPOSITION GROUP DOS CHEERING/CELEBRATING; OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS SINGING: Kill yourself and save Serbia, Slobodane (refers to the Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic); OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS HOLDING STICKERS READING IN SERBIAN: "He is gone"; OLD MAN AND WOMAN DANCING (5 SHOTS) 2.49 8. LAS/MV DOS SPEAKER ON THE STAGE; DOS SPEAKER READING OUT THE PRELIMINARY DATA; PEOPLE CHEERING; SCU MAN CRYING AND CROSSING HIMSELF (4 SHOTS) 3.13 9. SLV JOURNALISTS SETTING UP FOR THE NEWS CONFERENCE IN DOS HEADQUARTERS 3.16 10. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) CEDOMIR JOVANOVIC, HEAD OF DOS ELECTORAL HEADQUARTERS, SPEAKING SAYING: "Our presidential candidate has such strong lead that his victory in the first round is practically secured." 3.28 11. WS NEWS CONFERENCE IN DOS HEADQUARTERS 3.31 12. SLV EXTERIOR SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENT (SPO) PARTY HEADQUARTERS/ LAS FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 3.37 13. WS NEWS CONFERENCE IN SPO HEADQUARTERS 3.38 14. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) ANDJELKO TRPKOVIC, SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENT PARTY OFFICIAL, SPEAKING SAYING "It is clear that now in this run for President we have only two candidates. The question is if Vojislav Kostunica, who has a strong lead at the moment, will manage to win in the first round or will he go into the second one with Mr Milosevic." 3.57 15. SCU JOURNALISTS AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE 4.01 16. SLV PEOPLE WALKING IN BELGRADE PEDESTRIAN STREET (2 SHOTS) 4.08 17. SLV STREET SCENES WITH CARS DRIVING THROUGH BELGRADE 4.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAAAAT5MZHAWZM80IKF3LNDP78L
  • Story Text: Yugoslavia's government and opposition parties have
    begun issuing preliminary results based on the small number of
    results so far declared at the polling stations. Both sides
    claim they are leading.

    Cedomir Jovanovic, a spokesman for the Democratic
    Opposition of Serbia bloc grouping 18 political parties and
    one trade union, said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
    had 33
    percent of the votes.

    Earlier, Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party said some
    hours after polls closed at 8:00 p.m. (1800 GMT) that the
    president had a strong lead over Kostunica. Milosevic had
    trailed well behind him in independent pre-election opinion
    surveys.

    According to the Socialists Milosevic, led Kostunica by
    50.28 percent over 30.76 percent, based on preliminary data
    from around 300 of 10,000 polling stations across Yugoslavia.

    The ultra-nationalist Radical Party, once a member of
    Milosevic's ruling coalition but now estranged from it,
    complaining of unfair treatment, put Kostunica ahead, by 49.5
    percent to 40.44 percent with more than 600,000 ballots counted.


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