Montenegro: Presidential race candidate seeks recount

The Montenegrin Election Commission (DIK) on Monday announced that incumbent Filip Vujanović had won the presidential election held a day earlier.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 09.04.2013.

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PODGORICA The Montenegrin Election Commission (DIK) on Monday announced that incumbent Filip Vujanovic had won the presidential election held a day earlier. Later the same day, the commission said that his opponent in the race, Miodrag Lekovic, had lodged a complaint, seeking a recount. Montenegro: Presidential race candidate seeks recount Lekic's team said that some 20,000 ballots "could have been the subject of abuse." According to the commission, Vujanovic, who was the candidate of the ruling DPS party, won 161,940 votes, or 51.21 percent, while Lekic received 154,290, or 48.79 percent. Lekic's representative at the DIK Drazen Medojevic did not sign the report, and neither did commission members from New Serb Democracy and Positive Montenegro, while the representatives of the Socialist People's Party abstained. Earlier in the day, Lekic's campaign team called on the commision "not to sucumb to the pressure from the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS)." Council of Europe and OSCE monitors said on Monday that the elections were carried out professionally and efficiently "from the technical standpoint", and that fundamental rights were "for the most part observed". Miodrag Lekic (FoNet/AP) Tanjug

Montenegro: Presidential race candidate seeks recount

Lekić's team said that some 20,000 ballots "could have been the subject of abuse."

According to the commission, Vujanović, who was the candidate of the ruling DPS party, won 161,940 votes, or 51.21 percent, while Lekić received 154,290, or 48.79 percent.

Lekić's representative at the DIK Dražen Medojević did not sign the report, and neither did commission members from New Serb Democracy and Positive Montenegro, while the representatives of the Socialist People's Party abstained.

Earlier in the day, Lekić's campaign team called on the commision "not to sucumb to the pressure from the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS)."

Council of Europe and OSCE monitors said on Monday that the elections were carried out professionally and efficiently "from the technical standpoint", and that fundamental rights were "for the most part observed".

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