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...Official results released so far show the opposition candidate Kostunica leading Milosevic by 48 percent to 40 percent. These are not the final results, but if the pattern holds this means Milosevic is offering a runoff election, since according to his results neither man got the necessary 50 percent. Tonight's decision means Milosevic has made a vitally important psychological step. He's admitted he's not the most popular politician in Serbia, and that he's losing the election. And most importantly, he seems to be opting for a political solution rather than violence and confrontation. That's taken...
...forced him, early in 1997, to concede city hall to the opposition party chosen by the voters, and now it appears that Yugoslavia's voters have once more dealt their president a crushing blow. Although official results aren't expected before Tuesday, government sources claimed opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica had netted around 43 percent of votes, while a range of opposition and outside groups said Kostunica was favored by well above the 50 percent required to declare a first-round victory. But either way, the size of the opposition vote appears to have discouraged Milosevic from fraudulently claiming a first...
...danger, for Milosevic, in any of these scenarios may be that the very military, political and business elites on whom he has relied to keep him in power may now conclude that he has become a liability. Kostunica may well turn out to be Milosevic's worst nightmare, not simply because he's more popular with voters, but also because he may be sufficiently acceptable to the military and other Serb elites to allow them to finally jettison a leader who presided over a decade of disaster. Kostunica, after all, is a nationalist - albeit comparitively moderate - and firmly opposed...
...Tactically speaking, the campaign is over for both sides. People have already decided who they're going to vote for on Sunday, and we can be sure that on Monday there'll be two winners. Opposition leader Kostunica will get a majority of votes and declare himself the winner, but Milosevic will declare victory anyway. And from that moment on, nobody knows what might happen...
...Kostunica so popular...