Montenegro's Presidential Vote Fails

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Montenegro's Presidential Vote Fails

Montenegrins failed to elect a president Sunday as the turnout fell below the legal requirement of 50 percent.

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Montenegrins failed to elect a president Sunday as the turnout fell below the legal requirement of 50 percent.

Rassko Konjevich, spokesman for the non-governmental Center forDemocratic Transition (CDT), announced the failure late Sunday night, saying that only 46 percent of the electorate cast their ballots.

He said Filp Vujanovich, candidate of the ruling coalition of Democratic Party of Socialists and Social Democratic Party, won 86percent of all ballots cast, while his closest rival, the independent candidate Dragan Hajdukvic, got just 6.1 percent of the vote.

Some 457,000 eligible voters had been expected on Sunday to make their decision on 11 presidential candidates at 1,102 pollingstations between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m..

Montenegro's election failure came after a similar setback in its sister republic Serbia weeks ago. The two republics make up Yugoslavia.

A repeat vote with the same candidates will be held next month,according to Montenegro's election law.

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