SOCIALISTS SATISFIED WITH ELECTION RESULTS, ALBANIANS BOYCOTT

BELGRADE, Dec 20 (Hina) - According to unofficial and incomplete data released by the electoral headquarters of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), this party won 37,2 percent of votes in the Sunday election (compared to 28.77 percent in the last election). DEPOS, coalition of several opposition parties, placed second with 16,1 percent of votes (compared to previous 16,89 percent. The Serbian Radical Party led by Vojislav Seselj got 13,1 percent of votes (compared to previous 22,58). The Democratic Party finished fourth with 11,3 percent of votes (compared to previou 5 percent). An SPS representative told a press conference his party intended to form the Government alone. Talking to reporters at DEPOS headquarters, DEPOS leader Vuk Draskovic said that the SPS got 36 percent of votes and the opposition 64 percent, meaning that the opposition could have enough seats to form a democratic government without the Socialists. Zoran Djindjic, leader of the Democratic Party, told a press conference that the Socialists would not have the majority in Parliament, and that his party would not support the SPS minority government or enter into a coalition with them. The SPS won the election in Kosovo as the ethnic Albanians did not go to the polls for the third time. Democratic Union of Kosovo officials said the Kosovo Albanians decided for a Kosovo independent of Serbia. 202217 MET dec 93