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Despite predictions to the contrary, the pro-European party of President Boris Tadic won the parliamentary election in Serbia, according to preliminary estimates. However, Tadic still lacks a clear majority to form a government. His opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, wants nationalist parties to join forces to govern. Female voters in the village of Stara Pazova in Serbia Serbian President Boris Tadic's pro-European party has won snap parliamentary elections in Serbia in what election observers are calling a "very convincing victory." A projection by the monitoring organization Center for Free Election and Democracy (CESID) shows Tadic's Democratic Party taking 38 percent of the vote. The outcome came unexpectedly, after polls and analysts predicted his party would lose. Tadic declared victory for his Democratic Party (DS) on Sunday evening. "Serbs have undoubtedly confirmed a clear European path. This is a great victory," he said. At the same time, he warned: "The government we are building will not recognize Kosovo." Ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which favors closer ties to Moscow, warned Tadic that the pro-Europe camp hadn't won yet. He said his party also had very clear possibilities for creating a coalition that would not include the Democratic Party.
Despite predictions to the contrary, the pro-European party of President Boris Tadic won the parliamentary election in Serbia, according to preliminary estimates. However, Tadic still lacks a clear majority to form a government. His opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, wants nationalist parties to join forces to govern.
Female voters in the village of Stara Pazova in Serbia Serbian President Boris Tadic's pro-European party has won snap parliamentary elections in Serbia in what election observers are calling a "very convincing victory." A projection by the monitoring organization Center for Free Election and Democracy (CESID) shows Tadic's Democratic Party taking 38 percent of the vote. The outcome came unexpectedly, after polls and analysts predicted his party would lose.
Tadic declared victory for his Democratic Party (DS) on Sunday evening. "Serbs have undoubtedly confirmed a clear European path. This is a great victory," he said. At the same time, he warned: "The government we are building will not recognize Kosovo."
Ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which favors closer ties to Moscow, warned Tadic that the pro-Europe camp hadn't won yet. He said his party also had very clear possibilities for creating a coalition that would not include the Democratic Party.
BELGRADE: Serbia braced Monday for a protracted political showdown after the pro-Western coalition that declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections immediately faced a challenge from nationalist rivals who vowed to team up to form a government. President Boris Tadic, leader of the moderate Democratic Party, which supports Serbia's integration into the European Union, said Monday he had received a strong mandate after winning about a 10 percent lead over the far-right Radical Party, led by Tomislav Nikolic, which wants Serbia to strengthen ties with Moscow and China. The surprise win by pro-European forces - in the first election since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February - was enthusiastically welcomed by Serbian liberals and the European Union as vindication that Serbs had chosen economic prosperity and political liberalism over the virulent nationalism of the past. It came just three months after Serb protesters set part of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on fire to vent their anger over western backing for an independent Kosovo. Analysts said the election had swung in favor of pro-EU parties because of the EU's decision in late April to sign a pact with Serbia ahead of the vote that had helped clear the way for its future membership. They said the election illustrated that the EU's so-called "soft power" - its ability to dangle the prospect of EU membership to countries in return for their promise to embrace political and economic change - had become a powerful foreign policy tool in the post-Cold War world.
BELGRADE: Serbia braced Monday for a protracted political showdown after the pro-Western coalition that declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections immediately faced a challenge from nationalist rivals who vowed to team up to form a government.
President Boris Tadic, leader of the moderate Democratic Party, which supports Serbia's integration into the European Union, said Monday he had received a strong mandate after winning about a 10 percent lead over the far-right Radical Party, led by Tomislav Nikolic, which wants Serbia to strengthen ties with Moscow and China.
The surprise win by pro-European forces - in the first election since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February - was enthusiastically welcomed by Serbian liberals and the European Union as vindication that Serbs had chosen economic prosperity and political liberalism over the virulent nationalism of the past. It came just three months after Serb protesters set part of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on fire to vent their anger over western backing for an independent Kosovo.
Analysts said the election had swung in favor of pro-EU parties because of the EU's decision in late April to sign a pact with Serbia ahead of the vote that had helped clear the way for its future membership. They said the election illustrated that the EU's so-called "soft power" - its ability to dangle the prospect of EU membership to countries in return for their promise to embrace political and economic change - had become a powerful foreign policy tool in the post-Cold War world.
European Tribune - Serbia's Election: Get Ready to Declare Fraud!!!
Just a brief comment on Serbia's election since no one else seems to have diaried it. One of many stories on the election outcome can be read here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3917988.ece A game is at play that reminds me of the Pres. election in Florida circa 2000.
Just a brief comment on Serbia's election since no one else seems to have diaried it.
One of many stories on the election outcome can be read here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3917988.ece
A game is at play that reminds me of the Pres. election in Florida circa 2000.
