RIK: Nikolić won 49.51, Tadić 47.35 percent

What conspiracy, Danilo. The poor, uneducated, and ill-informed, made Nikolic their new president. It is not unusual for an incumbent to lose the popular vote when an economic crisis hits home. Just look at what happened to Sarcozy in France. Let's not make this election more than what it was. People are in dire economics, and they showed it at the polls.

Congratulation Serbia on electing the grave digger as your president.

wow! the nationalists have won, should the neighbours be concerned. Is serbia going to go into another greater serbia madness spree?

I think this is the best thing that could have happend for the Albanians, Croats and Bosnians. 3.5 million voted and i'm sure 90% of those are the nationalists who will bring Serbia to its knees again.

Tadic was an dreamer especially when it came to Kosovo, but nikolic is a mad man who just says things to please the nationalist.

Either way Kosovo will never be part of Serbia, by choosing nikolic serbia has lost all hope, to their wired dream.

I feel sorry for Peggy.

This must throw her conspiracy hopes for a loop

"I feel sorry for Peggy.

This must throw her conspiracy hopes for a loop
(Danilo, 21 May 2012 11:08)"

Talk about sour grapes! .........

"The conspiracy all these Serb-self-identified Australians hope is true. That it's all a set-up and all Serbs REALLY want Kostunica.
(Danilo, 21 May 2012 12:34)"

........ And the need to be more gracious in defeat!

Congratulations with a good election, Serbia!
I hope this means you don't enter the corrupt and bancrupt EU.
Russia is creating a new and stronger union. Russia's economy is growing, while the EU is bancrupt and the US is way beyond bancrupt. In a time of crisis, where do you want to turn? To the EU? Or to Russia? In times of war, who do you trust? The EU? Or Russia? Think about it.
Zivela Srbija!

The conspiracy all these Serb-self-identified Australians hope is true. That it's all a set-up and all Serbs REALLY want Kostunica.

Its inerestin when Serbian diaspora complains about Thaqi (who I do not support personally) as KLS man but look at Serbia:

#1 Nikolic - Radical who supposedly changed and was in Milosevices Gov!!!
#3 Dacic - Who was is Miloses party and was a spokesmen -> Thaqi same was a spokesmen for KLA man did not fight a day in his life.

Not so different after all!!!

So much for Serbia has changed we do not have same people in government...yeah right. This is great news as Tadic really was making progress and pushing for concessions in Kosovo that never thought would be accepted.

This is great day for Kosovo.

Vuk was smart to look for next job and travel!

Nehat, you're right that Kosova will never be part of Serbia, but the same applies vice versa to PMB and to Tetova, which will never become part of Kosova.

Yet Another J S, president elect Toma Nikolic is an embarrassment for Serbia. To have someone of his background, and stature, is a horrible representative of who the Serbian people really are. Do you not understand, that an uneducated, political hack, will give a picture to the world of who the Serbian people are? No, Serbs are better than a Toma Nikolic. The DS and Tadic certainly have their faults, but Nikolic is a step backwards. Anyone with any reason must know that. In any case, I wish Toma well. He is the president of Serbia now, and I pray that advisors around him will encourage him to make the right decisions for Serbia.

If we look at the Official Parliamentary Election results of the recent Serbian Parliamentary Election, we see on the Wikipedia Website something interesting.

Those who apparently Voted for what can be loosely termed the DS Group of Political Parties receive 53 % of the Vote, and those that Voted for what can loosely be termed the SNS Group of Political Parties receive 43 % of the Vote with 4 % Invalid Votes.

We now have the Presidential Vote that was closely guarded at the Polling Booths, and we find that President Tomislav Nikolic has gained more Votes than Candidate Boris Tadic.

I will leave it to Experts to suggest the reasons, but we cannot forget that there were allegations of Election Rigging and Election Fraud for the recent Serbian Parliamentary Election.

These figures are something that needs an explanation, and I do not want to offer an opinion until the unbiased Experts have had sufficient time to think on the matter, in order to provide an honest explanation.

As far as the fact that the Serbian President has worked in a cemetery, it does not matter to those who have wisdom.

Nehat, you're right that Kosova will never be part of Serbia, but the same applies vice versa to PMB and to Tetova, which will never become part of Kosova.
(Europe, 21 May 2012 14:09)

Europe I agree 100% PMB and Tetova should stay part of their receptive countries. I am sure they will find common ground especially in Macedonia.

Now we just need to give same right to PMB as North Kosovo and move forward.

I hope Mr. Nikolic looks to China and Russia more favorably than his predecessor. The EU should not be begged for,they are a collective failure which will crumble when the strong has had enough of the weak!

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.
(MikeC, 21 May 2012 19:02)

MikeC not at all this is great for K-Albanins, it was hard to deal with Tadic as he was telling EU I am making concessions now I need something to send home for Radicals so I win. With Radical ( Cetnik) in power its easy.

I just want to see what he says about agreements made in Brussels I hope he says we do not accept them this would be best thing ever. Nikolic do not chicken out please reject all agreements made in Brussels.

MikeC

It really doesn't make a difference. Most of your politicans are still under the illusion that Kosova is a part of Serbia :-), which if true, it makes it rather odd that Serbia would remove K. Albanians from the electoral list.

hahaahah who cares if he is a grave digger. maybe he can bring prosperity to Serbia. unlike your president who have been in office for 8 years but no good result. economy is bad, kosovo province is under western occupation, etc.

Better wish him (Pres. Nikolic)good luck :))


Congratulation Serbia on electing the grave digger as your president.
(Mr Q, 21 May 2012 11:28)

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.
(MikeC, 21 May 2012 19:02)

I am one of the Albanians that praised Tomo's victory, but my comment was not posted, since I said that he will bring more recognition than Jeremic.

Economan.

"The poor, uneducated, and ill-informed, made Nikolic their new president."

Later you say "Do you not understand, that an uneducated, political hack, will give a picture to the world of who the Serbian people are? No, Serbs are better than a Toma Nikolic."

No. They are not. Not today. As you can see majority in Serbia today is "poor, uneducated, and ill-informed."

Solution? Government should have work harder to make people better informed, more educated and wealthier. They failed to do that and now it's someone else's fault.

You mention economic crisis. They were often blaming global economic crisis for troubles in Serbia. Things beyond government's control.
But, those things were beyond control of other governments as well, but measures that they've taken gave better results.
Global crisis is hitting the region, not only Serbia. Why are we dead last in the region, in all indicators in virtually every area?
Highest unemployment, lowest average income, declining quality of education, etc. etc. Just few weeks ago new Health Care study was released....

Here is quality of Health Care Index for 2012

http://www.dcnews.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/clasament.jpg

We should assume that global crisis somehow missed Macedonia or Albania?

Besides, global economic crisis started in 2008. These guys BORROWED twice as much money since 2000 then communists did in 55 years (1945-2000).

Reds managed to make impressive network of roads and railroads with that money. To open hospitals all over country. Build power plants and hydro dams like Djerdap.
Yellows burdened future generations with much more debt then reds and manage to build what with that money?
One bridge in Belgrade? That's it?

One should think about it.
Presidential election was much more vote AGAINST Tadic, then vote FOR Nikolic.
I can't see why would anyone vote FOR Nikolic anyway...

"MikeC

It really doesn't make a difference. Most of your politicans are still under the illusion that Kosova is a part of Serbia :-), which if true, it makes it rather odd that Serbia would remove K. Albanians from the electoral list.
(Nikolle"

Nikolle, great comment.
I don't think anyone can logically rebutal your post.

Kosovo is Serbia.
Never forget.

"a horrible representative of who the Serbian people really are"

Ecoman. You haven't been here long enough to understand that the above isn't, unfortunately, true.

Good move, I would be worried if someone more moderate would have won. slowly nikolic can (and I think he will) move back in the direction of milosevic, and only then the problems in Balkans will be definitely solved. The solution of '99 was not the best, but chances are growing for a real solution.

@(Sveinung Vaardal,
This is absolutely true when you have Russia and China two biggest superpowers and fastest growing economy in the world you don't need bankrupt America or bankrupt European Union.
The situation of the US economy in 2012 GDP 15.1 trillion dollar,deficit 9.5% 1.4 trillion Dollar,dept 104% 15.7 trillion,grow economy only 0.5 to 1.5%,in the next 4 years the US economy will totality collapse with GDP 17.1 trillion,dept 130 to 135% 22trillion and deficit with 20 to 21% 3.5 trillion,official figures published by the U.S government perhaps figures may be higher.
Russian economy today is the 9th with 2.2 trillion dollar with fastest growing economy in the next 8 years Russian economy will be the 4th with 4.4 trillion dollar,Chinese economy today is the second with 8 trillion dollar in 2020 will be the first with 22 trillion dollar,Russia and China are the future US and European Union are the past.

Yet Another J S, 21 May 2012 15:26)
While I don't go out of the way to defend the Serbian politicians, your analysis is flawed. For one thing the results are very very close and wiht just a few more voters could have gone either way. You vote on the runoff was way lower than the first which would tend to point to a certain sector of voters chose not to participate for one reason or another.
The fraud allegations could have been enough to cause those voters who were luke warm support for Tadic to just not be excited enough to show up.
However, no matter how many steps are taken to prevent tampering with the numbers, it is almost impossible to keep it from happening.
I would tend to lean toward fraud coming from the NIkolic camp personally.
A few phony ballots held up and accusations of fraud are sometimes enough to tip the scales on a close vote.

To the EU? Or to Russia? In times of war, who do you trust? The EU? Or Russia? Think about it.
Zivela Srbija!
(Sveinung Vaardal, 21 May 2012 20:19)

I can give you a hint to asnwer that question; in the 1999 war, Russia was among those who sponsored a resolution which, according to Serbia, was instrumental to the dismemberment of sovereign European state....

Most albanian politicians are under the impression that they also control northern kosovo and are independent, not mention that both european and american patience is running out with the all words but no action and their unwilliness to stick to any agreement.
Thaci only the other day moaned about the EU not giving kosovo an easy ride into the EU because of 'cold' bureaucrats. And all this without even mentioning recent albanian behavior in FYROM.

wow! the nationalists have won, should the neighbours be concerned. Is serbia going to go into another greater serbia madness spree?

I think this is the best thing that could have happend for the Albanians, Croats and Bosnians. 3.5 million voted and i'm sure 90% of those are the nationalists who will bring Serbia to its knees again.

Tadic was an dreamer especially when it came to Kosovo, but nikolic is a mad man who just says things to please the nationalist.

Either way Kosovo will never be part of Serbia, by choosing nikolic serbia has lost all hope, to their wired dream.

Congratulation Serbia on electing the grave digger as your president.

I feel sorry for Peggy.

This must throw her conspiracy hopes for a loop

Its inerestin when Serbian diaspora complains about Thaqi (who I do not support personally) as KLS man but look at Serbia:

#1 Nikolic - Radical who supposedly changed and was in Milosevices Gov!!!
#3 Dacic - Who was is Miloses party and was a spokesmen -> Thaqi same was a spokesmen for KLA man did not fight a day in his life.

Not so different after all!!!

So much for Serbia has changed we do not have same people in government...yeah right. This is great news as Tadic really was making progress and pushing for concessions in Kosovo that never thought would be accepted.

This is great day for Kosovo.

Vuk was smart to look for next job and travel!

The conspiracy all these Serb-self-identified Australians hope is true. That it's all a set-up and all Serbs REALLY want Kostunica.

hahaahah who cares if he is a grave digger. maybe he can bring prosperity to Serbia. unlike your president who have been in office for 8 years but no good result. economy is bad, kosovo province is under western occupation, etc.

Better wish him (Pres. Nikolic)good luck :))


Congratulation Serbia on electing the grave digger as your president.
(Mr Q, 21 May 2012 11:28)

Nehat, you're right that Kosova will never be part of Serbia, but the same applies vice versa to PMB and to Tetova, which will never become part of Kosova.

"a horrible representative of who the Serbian people really are"

Ecoman. You haven't been here long enough to understand that the above isn't, unfortunately, true.

Nehat, you're right that Kosova will never be part of Serbia, but the same applies vice versa to PMB and to Tetova, which will never become part of Kosova.
(Europe, 21 May 2012 14:09)

Europe I agree 100% PMB and Tetova should stay part of their receptive countries. I am sure they will find common ground especially in Macedonia.

Now we just need to give same right to PMB as North Kosovo and move forward.

If we look at the Official Parliamentary Election results of the recent Serbian Parliamentary Election, we see on the Wikipedia Website something interesting.

Those who apparently Voted for what can be loosely termed the DS Group of Political Parties receive 53 % of the Vote, and those that Voted for what can loosely be termed the SNS Group of Political Parties receive 43 % of the Vote with 4 % Invalid Votes.

We now have the Presidential Vote that was closely guarded at the Polling Booths, and we find that President Tomislav Nikolic has gained more Votes than Candidate Boris Tadic.

I will leave it to Experts to suggest the reasons, but we cannot forget that there were allegations of Election Rigging and Election Fraud for the recent Serbian Parliamentary Election.

These figures are something that needs an explanation, and I do not want to offer an opinion until the unbiased Experts have had sufficient time to think on the matter, in order to provide an honest explanation.

As far as the fact that the Serbian President has worked in a cemetery, it does not matter to those who have wisdom.

Yet Another J S, president elect Toma Nikolic is an embarrassment for Serbia. To have someone of his background, and stature, is a horrible representative of who the Serbian people really are. Do you not understand, that an uneducated, political hack, will give a picture to the world of who the Serbian people are? No, Serbs are better than a Toma Nikolic. The DS and Tadic certainly have their faults, but Nikolic is a step backwards. Anyone with any reason must know that. In any case, I wish Toma well. He is the president of Serbia now, and I pray that advisors around him will encourage him to make the right decisions for Serbia.

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.
(MikeC, 21 May 2012 19:02)

I am one of the Albanians that praised Tomo's victory, but my comment was not posted, since I said that he will bring more recognition than Jeremic.

MikeC

It really doesn't make a difference. Most of your politicans are still under the illusion that Kosova is a part of Serbia :-), which if true, it makes it rather odd that Serbia would remove K. Albanians from the electoral list.

What conspiracy, Danilo. The poor, uneducated, and ill-informed, made Nikolic their new president. It is not unusual for an incumbent to lose the popular vote when an economic crisis hits home. Just look at what happened to Sarcozy in France. Let's not make this election more than what it was. People are in dire economics, and they showed it at the polls.

Congratulations with a good election, Serbia!
I hope this means you don't enter the corrupt and bancrupt EU.
Russia is creating a new and stronger union. Russia's economy is growing, while the EU is bancrupt and the US is way beyond bancrupt. In a time of crisis, where do you want to turn? To the EU? Or to Russia? In times of war, who do you trust? The EU? Or Russia? Think about it.
Zivela Srbija!

Good move, I would be worried if someone more moderate would have won. slowly nikolic can (and I think he will) move back in the direction of milosevic, and only then the problems in Balkans will be definitely solved. The solution of '99 was not the best, but chances are growing for a real solution.

"MikeC

It really doesn't make a difference. Most of your politicans are still under the illusion that Kosova is a part of Serbia :-), which if true, it makes it rather odd that Serbia would remove K. Albanians from the electoral list.
(Nikolle"

Nikolle, great comment.
I don't think anyone can logically rebutal your post.

"I feel sorry for Peggy.

This must throw her conspiracy hopes for a loop
(Danilo, 21 May 2012 11:08)"

Talk about sour grapes! .........

"The conspiracy all these Serb-self-identified Australians hope is true. That it's all a set-up and all Serbs REALLY want Kostunica.
(Danilo, 21 May 2012 12:34)"

........ And the need to be more gracious in defeat!

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.

I hope Mr. Nikolic looks to China and Russia more favorably than his predecessor. The EU should not be begged for,they are a collective failure which will crumble when the strong has had enough of the weak!

Economan.

"The poor, uneducated, and ill-informed, made Nikolic their new president."

Later you say "Do you not understand, that an uneducated, political hack, will give a picture to the world of who the Serbian people are? No, Serbs are better than a Toma Nikolic."

No. They are not. Not today. As you can see majority in Serbia today is "poor, uneducated, and ill-informed."

Solution? Government should have work harder to make people better informed, more educated and wealthier. They failed to do that and now it's someone else's fault.

You mention economic crisis. They were often blaming global economic crisis for troubles in Serbia. Things beyond government's control.
But, those things were beyond control of other governments as well, but measures that they've taken gave better results.
Global crisis is hitting the region, not only Serbia. Why are we dead last in the region, in all indicators in virtually every area?
Highest unemployment, lowest average income, declining quality of education, etc. etc. Just few weeks ago new Health Care study was released....

Here is quality of Health Care Index for 2012

http://www.dcnews.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/clasament.jpg

We should assume that global crisis somehow missed Macedonia or Albania?

Besides, global economic crisis started in 2008. These guys BORROWED twice as much money since 2000 then communists did in 55 years (1945-2000).

Reds managed to make impressive network of roads and railroads with that money. To open hospitals all over country. Build power plants and hydro dams like Djerdap.
Yellows burdened future generations with much more debt then reds and manage to build what with that money?
One bridge in Belgrade? That's it?

One should think about it.
Presidential election was much more vote AGAINST Tadic, then vote FOR Nikolic.
I can't see why would anyone vote FOR Nikolic anyway...

A lot of comments from albanians and most, if not all of them, are pretty angry at Nikolics win. That is a good thing. The day albanians are happy with who is leading Serbia is the day I will begin to worry.
(MikeC, 21 May 2012 19:02)

MikeC not at all this is great for K-Albanins, it was hard to deal with Tadic as he was telling EU I am making concessions now I need something to send home for Radicals so I win. With Radical ( Cetnik) in power its easy.

I just want to see what he says about agreements made in Brussels I hope he says we do not accept them this would be best thing ever. Nikolic do not chicken out please reject all agreements made in Brussels.

Yet Another J S, 21 May 2012 15:26)
While I don't go out of the way to defend the Serbian politicians, your analysis is flawed. For one thing the results are very very close and wiht just a few more voters could have gone either way. You vote on the runoff was way lower than the first which would tend to point to a certain sector of voters chose not to participate for one reason or another.
The fraud allegations could have been enough to cause those voters who were luke warm support for Tadic to just not be excited enough to show up.
However, no matter how many steps are taken to prevent tampering with the numbers, it is almost impossible to keep it from happening.
I would tend to lean toward fraud coming from the NIkolic camp personally.
A few phony ballots held up and accusations of fraud are sometimes enough to tip the scales on a close vote.

Kosovo is Serbia.
Never forget.

Most albanian politicians are under the impression that they also control northern kosovo and are independent, not mention that both european and american patience is running out with the all words but no action and their unwilliness to stick to any agreement.
Thaci only the other day moaned about the EU not giving kosovo an easy ride into the EU because of 'cold' bureaucrats. And all this without even mentioning recent albanian behavior in FYROM.

@(Sveinung Vaardal,
This is absolutely true when you have Russia and China two biggest superpowers and fastest growing economy in the world you don't need bankrupt America or bankrupt European Union.
The situation of the US economy in 2012 GDP 15.1 trillion dollar,deficit 9.5% 1.4 trillion Dollar,dept 104% 15.7 trillion,grow economy only 0.5 to 1.5%,in the next 4 years the US economy will totality collapse with GDP 17.1 trillion,dept 130 to 135% 22trillion and deficit with 20 to 21% 3.5 trillion,official figures published by the U.S government perhaps figures may be higher.
Russian economy today is the 9th with 2.2 trillion dollar with fastest growing economy in the next 8 years Russian economy will be the 4th with 4.4 trillion dollar,Chinese economy today is the second with 8 trillion dollar in 2020 will be the first with 22 trillion dollar,Russia and China are the future US and European Union are the past.

To the EU? Or to Russia? In times of war, who do you trust? The EU? Or Russia? Think about it.
Zivela Srbija!
(Sveinung Vaardal, 21 May 2012 20:19)

I can give you a hint to asnwer that question; in the 1999 war, Russia was among those who sponsored a resolution which, according to Serbia, was instrumental to the dismemberment of sovereign European state....