Samardžić on Kosovo vote, denies partition

Only 57% voted? These illegal elections are too important for the Kosovar - S minority, I expected a 70 - 80% outcome.

Assuming 100,000 are eligible to vote (optimistically) * .57 = 57,000 voted (still way too optimistic, this is ALL people, kids, etc).

Realistically maybe 35,000 Kosovar-S voted...that is low.

Those are my thoughts. Are these good turnouts? They seem very low to me.

given that most of the Serbs in the southern serbian province are forced to live in ghetto´s surrounded by barbed-wire, it´s a great result, that so many of them could get to the ballot-boxes...

you seem to forget the albanian apartheid-methods imposed on the serbian part of the population...

Only 57% voted? These illegal elections are too important for the Kosovar - S minority, I expected a 70 - 80% outcome.

Assuming 100,000 are eligible to vote (optimistically) * .57 = 57,000 voted (still way too optimistic, this is ALL people, kids, etc).

Realistically maybe 35,000 Kosovar-S voted...that is low.

Those are my thoughts. Are these good turnouts? They seem very low to me.
(KV, 19 May 2008 19:31)

The results are much better than when Pristina had their last elections. What was the turnout, under 50% I think. Who ever has been elected in Kosovo is far more legitimate than what came out of Pristina.

Only 57% voted? These illegal elections are too important for the Kosovar - S minority, I expected a 70 - 80% outcome.

Assuming 100,000 are eligible to vote (optimistically) * .57 = 57,000 voted (still way too optimistic, this is ALL people, kids, etc).

Realistically maybe 35,000 Kosovar-S voted...that is low.

Those are my thoughts. Are these good turnouts? They seem very low to me.

given that most of the Serbs in the southern serbian province are forced to live in ghetto´s surrounded by barbed-wire, it´s a great result, that so many of them could get to the ballot-boxes...

you seem to forget the albanian apartheid-methods imposed on the serbian part of the population...

Only 57% voted? These illegal elections are too important for the Kosovar - S minority, I expected a 70 - 80% outcome.

Assuming 100,000 are eligible to vote (optimistically) * .57 = 57,000 voted (still way too optimistic, this is ALL people, kids, etc).

Realistically maybe 35,000 Kosovar-S voted...that is low.

Those are my thoughts. Are these good turnouts? They seem very low to me.
(KV, 19 May 2008 19:31)

The results are much better than when Pristina had their last elections. What was the turnout, under 50% I think. Who ever has been elected in Kosovo is far more legitimate than what came out of Pristina.