BELGRADE, Nov 5 (Hina) - The Serbian parliament on Tuesday evening passed amendments to the law on the election of Serbia's President, which remove the previous legal condition that over 50 percent of registered voters should go to
the polls in order that the election might be proclaimed valid. Under the new amendments, there is no such requirement and the shortest period for the pre-election campaign is now 30 days instead of 45.
BELGRADE, Nov 5 (Hina) - The Serbian parliament on Tuesday evening
passed amendments to the law on the election of Serbia's President,
which remove the previous legal condition that over 50 percent of
registered voters should go to the polls in order that the election
might be proclaimed valid. Under the new amendments, there is no
such requirement and the shortest period for the pre-election
campaign is now 30 days instead of 45. #L#
Representatives of Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia
(DSS) attended last night's session, but they abstained from the
voting on the changes to the law, given that they had proposed that
there should be a provision stipulating a 25-percent turnout of
voters as to regard the ballot valid.
A local radio "B92 Radio" broadcast unofficial information that the
incumbent Yugoslav President Kostunica and Serbian Premier Zoran
Djindjic had agreed not only on the continuation of the work of the
Serbian parliament but also on the organisation of the presidential
election and the support to one candidate for that poll.
Serbian Assembly chairwoman, Natasa Micic, however, has not yet set
the exact date for the new vote.
The term of office of the current Serbian president, Milan
Milutinovic, who is an ICTY indictee, expires on 5 January 2003.
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