Elections failed

Elections failed - only 38.3 percent of voters went to polls
Tanjug - November 16, 2003

21:27 BELGRADE , Nov 16 (Tanjug) - The required one half of voters did not vote at the Sunday Serbian presidential elections, so that the elections could succeed, since the turnout was 38.3 perecent, the Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) said late on Sunday.

CeSID announced the first results according to the data acquired on the sample of 304 polling stations from all parts of Serbia, according to which 46.5 voters voted for Serbian Radical Party candidate Tomislav Nikolic, 35 percent for Dragoljub Micunovic (DOS), and 9.5 percent for Velimir Ilic (New Serbia).