June 28, 2004
Tadic wins
Boris Tadic won the Presidential election in Serbia yesterday.
You may recall that Tadic was running against Nikolic of the Radical Party. Nikolic came alarmingly close -- the final vote was about 54% - 46%. That's worrying. Still, when the dust had settled Tadic was the clear victor.
So what next? Nothing much -- and that's a good thing. Tadic has said that he doesn't plan to call elections any time soon, which means he won't upset the oh-so-delicate Parliamentary balance.
Still, his party -- the Democrats -- are still out of power. So Serbia is in the odd position of being governed by a coalition of three parties, while a fourth party (the Socialists) is out of government but gives them tacit support, a fifth party (the Democrats) is out of government but holds the Presidency, and the largest single party of all -- the Radicals -- has no say in government at all.
Posted by douglas at June 28, 2004 04:45 PM