Series:OKO IZBORA

ABOUT ELECTIONS 01 - Report of the Center for Free Elections and Democracy on the parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia (September-October 1997)

OKO IZBORA 01 - Izveštaj Centra za slobodne izbore i demokratiju sa parlamentarnih i predsedničkih izbora u Srbiji (septembar-oktobar 1997)

Author(s): / Language(s): Serbian

ABOUT ELECTIONS 04 - Report on the parliamentary and presidential elections in the FRY and the provincial elections in Vojvodina (September - October 2000)

OKO IZBORA 04 - Izveštaj sa parlamentarnih i predsedničkih izbora u SRJ i pokrajinskih izbora u Vojvodini (septembar - oktobar 2000)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Serbian

In the presidential elections, with the convincing victory of DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica over Slobodan Milošević, already in the first round, the old regime was left without legitimacy, which rested to the greatest extent on the personal authority of the leader. The peaceful removal of Milošević by "ballots" also had a huge symbolic significance, so it is not surprising that the regime's attempt to falsify election results with the help of election commissions and the Federal Constitutional Court is not surprising. Citizens throughout Serbia responded to these attempts with mass protests. The protests culminated on October 5 in the action of the DOS under the slogan "Serbia in Belgrade", when about a million people from all over Serbia flooded the Parliament of the FRY, Belgrade streets and squares, and a large number of them also entered the buildings of the Federal Assembly and the Radio and Television of Serbia, which symbolically confirmed the people's victory. The next day, October 6, the Constitutional Court of the FRY annulled its previous decision and recognized the victory of Vojislav Koštunica in the first round of the presidential elections.