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Serbia actually changed the Miloshevich-era election law that required 50% voter turnout in both runds to a 50% minimum turnout in the first round.

Instead of using countries with established democratic traditions as the guide, Serbian legislators decided to make a bad imitation and the results are that Serbia is being thrown into a political chaos.

In Serbia, as in the rest of the Balkans, the idea that an obstention is a choice and not a baton is a foreign one. Election boycott there is not a tool for stripping the responsable citizens who vote of their right to elect candidates. It is a state-sanctioned election terror.

Instead of making the law right, the Serbian legislature made it half-right. Now, in both elections for the past two months, the Serbian citizens who voted were robbed of their vote by voters who didn't bother to vote. The quasi-intellectual elite in Serbia does not see it that way because they are mentally still in the Middle Ages, backward and ignorant.

This will further polarize Serbia, create a new powderkeg and lead to tit-for-tat. Perhaps deservingly so.

Well people need to go out and vote.

Here in Australia we HAVE to vote in ALL local, state and federal electrions.

EVERY one has to vote or there is a $100+ fine.

I have to prove my self absent on the last election to avoid paying the fine.

Good or bad everyone has to express their opinion and it is one of the responsibilities of living in a democratic society.

Whereas the United States system of voting ...... :) .... lets not get into that ...... it is a conservative website.

Djindjic's game plan seems to be to ensure the failure of the elections so that he can take advantage of the period that Dr.K. has no job to stitch him up/ consolidate own powerbase. If Dr.K., as a logical counter move, blocks the new constitution, then Dj will have a golden PR opportunity to present Dr.K. as the one blocking reform (who blocked election law reform?)and holding Serbia back to both the domestic audience, and more importantly, his western patrons.

Has anyone got any infor on Dj's financial situation, i.e. any grants recieved from the EU/US/Sorros or any material support? I assume that he has, in which case the publication of such material could damage him even further...

VRN