Croatia's president wins first round, may avoid runoff
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Croatia's incumbent President Stipe Mesic overwhelmingly won the first round of elections and may avoid a runoff to serve a second five-year term to lead the country as it seeks to join the EU, exit polls ...
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 1 -- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the first round of Brazil's presidential election Sunday, but fell short of earning enough votes to avoid a runoff later this month against the second-place challenger.
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Croatia's pro-Western president, Stjepan Mesic, narrowly failed to clinch re-election on Sunday, paving the way for a run-off vote against the candidate of the ruling conservative government.
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic wins a second five-year term in office, after an easy election victory.
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Croatians returned to the polls Sunday for presidential runoff between the man who led the former Yugoslav republic out of international isolation and a conservative Cabinet minister favored by nationalists.
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Croatia's pro-Western president failed to win an outright majority for re-election on Sunday, forcing him to face a runoff vote against the conservative government's candidate in two weeks.
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ZAGRB (Deutsche Welle) - Croatia's new parliament Saturday backed the new government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who said that further European integration and economic development would be top priorities. Croatia would do everything it could regarding reforms and negotiations to speed up its efforts to join the European Union by 2010, Sanader said. He added that he also expects Croatia to join NATO in April.
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ZAGREB, Croatia -- President Stipe Mesic of Croatia, who is credited with moving this former Yugoslav country closer to the West, overwhelmingly won a second term yesterday.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Reformist opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko edged the prime minister in the first round of Ukraine's presidential vote, the Central Elections Commission said Wednesday after a delayed final tally.
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Croatians go to the polls Sunday for presidential elections which are likely to be won by incumbent centrist Stipe Mesic, the Balkan country's second leader since its independence from the former Yugoslavia in ...
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BUCHAREST : Amid allegations of widescale fraud, the candidate of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) narrowly emerged the leader in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential election, according to partial vote tallies.
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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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The United States will host Croatia on March 4-6 in the first round of the 2005 Davis Cup. In Thursday&#39;s draw, the Americans and Spanish -- this year&#39;s finalists -- were
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic will face his main conservative rival in a runoff presidential vote later this month to decide who will lead the former Yugoslav republic's final push to join the European Union, election results showed.
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Croatian President Stipe Mesic won a crushing victory over his ruling conservative party rival in Sunday's election runoff, securing a second five-year term and promising to lead the former Yugoslav republic into the European Union.
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Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes in the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday but not enough to win outright, exit polls showed, setting up a run-off with pro-Western President Boris Tadic.
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The corruption-tainted president is still favored to win reelection, but his failure to gain a majority on the first round has shaken him