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Election failure disenchants coach Blazevic of political hopes

Author: Marija Šestan

ZAGREB, Sept 13 (Hina) - The political ambitions of the renowned Croatian football coach Miroslav Ciro Blazevic were ingloriously smashed in last Sunday's elections for Croatia's parliament, when Blazevic won only 259 preferential votes as the top seed in a list that was offered to voters living outside Croatia, that is, mainly Croat citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Blazevic, born in Travnik, central Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the first choice of the list of a coalition led by Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic's party in Constituency No. 11. The list mustered some 4% of ballots in that constituency, which was short of a 5-percent threshold, and Blazevic gained a mere 259 preferential ballots.

"I have embarrassed myself. I am disappointed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I believed that they liked me, and this shows that they don't give a hoot about me," Blazevic was quoted as saying on the web portal of the local Dnevni Avaz newspaper on Tuesday.

Blazevic admitted that Bandic's party had paid the cost of transporting voters  by bus to polling stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it did not result in any higher voter support.

A disenchanted Blazevic said that this was the end of his political engagement.

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