Vujanovic Elected as Montenegro's New President

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Vujanovic Elected as Montenegro's New President

Filip Vujanovic, the candidate of the ruling coalition, won the presidential election on Sunday in Montenegro, an unofficial organization declared.

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Filip Vujanovic, the candidate of the ruling coalition, won the presidential election on Sunday in Montenegro, an unofficial organization declared.

According to the Center for Monitoring Elections (CEMI), about 48 percent of 458,000 registered voters cast their ballots in Montenegro, a republic of the newly formed Serbia and Montenegro, the successor to the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Vujanovic won 63 percent of the votes as the candidate of the Democratic Party of Socialists and the Social Democratic Party.

Miodrag Zivkovic from the Liberal Alliance, received 31 percent of the vote while independent candidate Dragan Hajdukovic got four percent.

The republic held two presidential polls last December and thisFebruary, but both of them were declared void as the voter turnoutfell below the minimum requirement of 50 percent needed to win.

But under the newly revised electoral law which scrapped the turnout rule, candidates can be elected no matter what the turnoutis.

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