Re: [A-List] Serbia votes ‘the wrong way’

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/30/07, Jim Yarker <sjy_estrien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> pushed up in relation to what though?  The official turnout figure for these
> legislatives was a whisker over 60%, last time it was a whisker under 60% so
> about the same.

I'm a bit behind the times on the Serbian front.  I was thinking of
some elections after the fall of the Milosevic government, whose
turnouts were too low to be valid by the standard set by the Serbian
law.

> Kosovo affected timing though, because the compradorist
> parties didn't want to compound their impopularity by risking a vote after
> the UN unveiled its Kosovo plan.  With the vote pushed up, the hope was that
> Kosovo wouldn't be so front and centre in the campaign.  A later vote, it
> was believed, would risked to help the SRS and the SPS.

I see.  Thanks for the explanation.
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