| Montenegrin election campaign hotting up |
| 2 April 2008 | 11:38
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PODGORICA --
Five days ahead of Montenegrin presidential elections, campaigning is reaching fever pitch.
The candidates have been exchanging strongly-worded messages, while the real duals are expected at the final conventions that take place between Wednesday and Friday, together with a head-to-head on April 3.
The candidate of the Serb list opposition coalition Andrija Mandić has called on voters in Pljevlje to vote for him in as bigger numbers as possible in order to defeat the so-called “regime candidate” Filip Vujanović.
“The regime candidate must be defeated,“ said Mandić.
At a rally near Podgorica, ruling coalition candidate Vujanović called on the citizens of Malesija and all the Albanians in Montenegro to vote for him, and not for Movement for Change candidate Nebojša Medojević, who, he said, had lobbied against Montenegrin independence.
Meanwhile, Socialist People’s Party candidate Srđan Milić called once more on Vujanović to “speak for himself for once,” and not just repeat the views of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović.
In response to Mandić’s message that the Montenegrin opposition should form a coalition ahead of the parliamentary elections in 2009, Medojević said that the Serb National Party, and other similar parties, should first recognize an independent Montenegro.
“If they want to start talking about toppling regimes, I believe my counterparts from the Serb list are aware that they have to recognize Montenegro,“ he told a rally in Ulcinj.
The Montenegrin presidential elections will be held on April 6.
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