BELGRADE, Nov 11 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and a candidate in the recent unsuccessful September presidential election in Serbia, Miroljub Labus, said at a news conference on Monday that he would not run in the
repeated presidential election scheduled for December 8. Labus also announced that he was no longer a member of the Democratic Party headed by Serbian Premier Zoran Djindic.
BELGRADE, Nov 11 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister and a
candidate in the recent unsuccessful September presidential
election in Serbia, Miroljub Labus, said at a news conference on
Monday that he would not run in the repeated presidential election
scheduled for December 8. Labus also announced that he was no longer
a member of the Democratic Party headed by Serbian Premier Zoran
Djindic. #L#
Serbia needs political consensus to continue reforms which will not
be realised through the coming presidential election Labus said
explaining that was the reason why he would not run this time. He
added that he left the Democratic Party because they had abandoned
him and did not offer him sufficient support in the presidential
election.
In the second round of the September election Labus gained around
one million votes while Vojislav Kostunica, the current president
of Yugoslavia, won just under two million votes. The election fell
through because less then 50 percent of the electorate attended the
second round of the presidential election after which the Assembly
of Serbia abolished that limit leaving this as a condition only in
the first round of elections. Kostunica still has not announced his
candidacy.
(hina) sp it sb