Incumbent Mesic Leads Presidential Race in Croatia
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ZAGREB, Croatia  - Croatians voted for president  Sunday, with liberal incumbent Stjepan Mesic expected to win a  second term and help shepherd the former Yugoslav republic's  planned 2009 entry into the European Union.
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Croatians overwhelmingly gave pro-Western President Stjepan Mesic a second term in an election runoff, bolstering efforts to bring the former Yugoslav republic to European Union membership, results showed ...
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Croats voted Sunday whether to give President Stipe Mesic a second term in an election that was not monitored by international observers, an indication of the former Yugoslav country's democratic progress since ...
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BELGRADE, Feb 4 (IPS) - Serbian voters have decided, in the tightest  run-off so far, that their president for the next five years  remains incumbent Boris Tadic, seen as the leader who can take  the biggest nation in the Balkans closer to the EU.
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Bosnia's wartime foreign minister  Haris Silajdzic leads in the race for the Muslim member of the  state tri-presidency against incumbent Sulejman Tihic,  organizers of an October 1 vote said on Monday.
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ZAGREB, Oct 18  Croatia will hold regular presidential elections on December 21 to choose the head of state likely to oversee the former Yugoslav republic's entry into the European Union in 2009.
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader won parliament's backing on Saturday for his proposed centre-right coalition cabinet, which faces the uphill task of speeding up Zagreb's European Union membership talks.
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Croatia's pro-Western president, Stjepan Mesic, narrowly failed to clinch reelection yesterday, paving the way for a runoff against the candidate of the ruling conservative government.
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Croatians overwhelmingly gave pro-Western President Stjepan Mesic a second term in an election run-off, bolstering efforts to bring the former Yugoslav republic to European Union membership, results showed Monday.
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Bosnia-Hercegovina will hold a general election on Sunday, for the fifth time since the signing of the Dayton Agreement.
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Boris Tadic re-elected in Serbia's presidential election, beating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic
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Incumbent Boris Tadic narrowly won a second term as Serbia's president after a runoff Sunday with ultranationalist rival Tomislav Nikolic, according to preliminary figures from election monitors.
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"There is a risk of the return of the old guard that led Serbia into conflicts and isolation during the 1990s and led people into turmoil and uncertainty"  By Ellie TzortziBELGRADE  - Pro-Western president Boris Tadic and hardline challenger Tomislav Nikolic vie in elections on Sunday that will decide who drives Serbia's response to the trauma of the expected breakaway of its Kosovo region.Opinion polls ahead of a first-round ballot gave Nikolic a slim lead over Tadic, but not enough for a knockout victory.The winner of the February 3 run-off will be the candidate who can attract third-party votes with promises of better living standards, jobs and the defense of Kosovo, heading for independence with Western backing within months. Read more
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The presidential candidate of the Croatian Bloc for the forthcoming elections in the Republic of Croatia, Ivic Pasalic, said in Mostar today that he will support the idea of creating a Croatian federal unit in ...
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In an online interview with users of RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service website on 20 September, Croatian President Stipe Mesic dismissed the argument that possible independence for Kosova ...
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Serbian hardliner Tomislav Nikolic led reformist Boris Tadic in the presidential race, unofficial estimates suggested Sunday, but a second-round run-off was still expected in the crucial elections.
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President Stipe Mesic failed to win an outright first-round victory in the presidential election on Sunday and will face a female cabinet minister in a run-off, nearly complete official results showed.