BELGRADE, Dec 12 (Hina) - ICTY indictees can be elected to Serbia's parliament, because they are assumed to be innocent until found guilty, which is when their mandate automatically stops, Serbia's Electoral Commission said in a
statement after talks with OSCE representatives in Belgrade Friday.
BELGRADE, Dec 12 (Hina) - ICTY indictees can be elected to Serbia's
parliament, because they are assumed to be innocent until found
guilty, which is when their mandate automatically stops, Serbia's
Electoral Commission said in a statement after talks with OSCE
representatives in Belgrade Friday. #L#
The Commission's job is not to judge the morality and political
meaning of candidacies, but to establish the right to run in the
election, the statement said.
The Commission also says that today's talks with OSCE Mission head
Maurizio Massari and associates focused on the electoral threshold
(five percent of the vote) and the presence of ICTY indictees on
party slates.
The Electoral Commission has so far confirmed four slates on which
ICTY indictees are running -- Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party
of Serbia, Vojislav Seselj's Serb Radical Party, Nebojsa
Pavkovic's coalition slate, and Interior Minister Dusan
Mihajlovic's Liberals of Serbia slate which is headed by police
general and ICTY indictee Sretan Lukic.
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