Word: kostunica
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...million eligible voters can be a decisive advantage. Milosevic's media will then declare the victory of "patriotic forces" over "NATO-sponsored traitors" and the police are expected to be as successful in crushing popular protest as they have been on several occasions during the past year. A recent Kostunica statement demonstrates that the opposition is painfully aware of its position. "It is very hard for me to imagine Milosevic winning fairly," said Kostunica, "and even harder to imagine him accepting my victory...
...dirtiest campaign I've ever seen. There are vicious personal attacks on opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica, and intensive harassment of opposition activists. The authorities have been surprised by Kostunica's popularity, and they've mounted a near-hysterical propaganda campaign to stop him. There's a big opposition rally scheduled for Belgrade on Wednesday, but Milosevic won't be around. He's going to Montenegro to hold his first rally there since the Montenegrin government began moving toward independence...
...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...