Serbia’s elections Index:
- Average monthly wages in May 2000: $43 (telephone poll by NIN magazine)
- How many people answered they lived worse than 10 years ago: 85% (telephone poll by NIN magazine)
- Average monthly salary in January 2000: $40 (OCHA, 3/20/00)
- Price for the one minute election ad on the state TV at the official exchange rate: $6000 (BETA news agency, 08/14/00)
- Number of political parties in the ‘united opposition’ in Serbia: 18
- Number of time slots the ‘united opposition’ will be given on the state TV: 1
- Number of presidential candidates in Serbia: 7 (same)
- Number of them who are Muslim: 1 (same), (1)
- Number of political parties in Serbia who declared a presidential candidate while simultaneously declaring a boycott of elections: 1 (2)
- Number of Western Democracies who claim they want Milosevic out of power: ALL.
- Number of Western Democracies who endorsed Serbia’s united democratic opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica: NONE.
- Number of presidential candidates in the U.S.: 239 (Federal Election Commission)
- Number of presidential candidates that will be involved in TV presidential debates under the new criteria (that a presidential contender must receive 15% support in a series of 5 polls) in the U.S.: 2 - a Republican and a Democrat
- Number of political parties involved in the decision making of The Commission on Presidential Debates that decides on that criteria: 2 - Republicans and Democrats
- Factor by which the Serbian presidential candidates are better represented on the Serbian regime controlled media than US ones are on the "free" American media: 6.6 (3)
- As of August 18 the polls in Serbia: Kostunica 48% - Milosevic 22% (OSI Serbiawatch 140)
- As of August 23 (after SPO candidate Vojislav Mihajlovic started his campaign) the polls in Serbia: Kostunica 35% - Milosevic 23% (OSI Serbiawatch 141)
- Number of cities in Serbia where municipal SPO leadership wants Mihajlovic withdrawn from the ballots: 3 (same)
- The crowd at the opening of the reconstructed Studenica hospital center in Kraljevo where the vice-chairman of SPS, Mirko Marjanovic, outlined Milosevic’s electoral platform: 1000 (BETA news agency, 8/15/00)
- In the same city, two days later - the crowd at the first of 30 planned rock concerts organized by a group of Serbia’s NGO-s in cooperation with Association of Independent Electronic Media, dubbed "Rock N Roll for Elections": 5000 (BETA news agency, 8/18/00)
- Percentage of town’s population that showed up at the Rock N Roll for Elections concert in Bajina Basta: 10% (Radio B2-92, Aug. 22)
- Percentage of Serbs who turned voting age this year (Otpor and Rock N Roll for Elections target group): 20% (G17 Plus)
- Population of Hungarians in Vojvodina (Census 1981): 385,000
- Number of Hungarian political parties in Vojvodina: 5 (Duna TV Budapest, 8/12/00)
- Population of Muslims in Sandzak region of Serbia (Census 1981): 151,000
- Number of Muslim political parties in Sandzak: 14 (BETA news agency, 8/18/00)
- Percentage of people that would vote for Milosevic: 13.7% (poll by Mark-Plan, an independent polling firm in Belgrade on 7/19/00)
- Percentage of people who trust no politician: 39.5% (same)
- Average number of youth beaten by police every week in Serbia for wearing Otpor insignia: 80 (Again August in Belgrade, Lepa Mladjenovic)
- Number of Serbian refugees from Croatia and Bosnia, many of whom are loyal to Milosevic, among the population of Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina province: 1 in 4. (IWPR BCR 162)
- Percent of voting deputies from Montenegro in Yugoslav Federal Assembly: 28% (CIA World Factbook)
- Percent of voting deputies from Montenegro in YFA after the elections according to new Constitutional rules: 6.25% (prof. Kosta Cavoski, 07/12/00)
- Montenegro military showdown: 15:16 - 15,000 Special Police of Montenegro loyal to Djukanovic versus the 15,000 2nd Army soldiers and the 1,000 7th Battalion of military police of YA loyal to Milosevic. (NYT, 8/5/00)
- Number of days Montenegro’s president Djukanovic continued to claim he would boycott any ballot Milosevic calls and organize an independence referendum should Milosevic force elections on Montenegro's territory: 21 (AP, 07/28/00 and RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT, Vol. 4, No. 62, 18 August 2000)
- Following the web of speculation that Milosevic may crush Djukanovic's insubordination after the September 24 elections, the commanding ship of US Navy Sixth Fleet docked in Dubrovnik on 9/16 in preparation for scheduled military maneuvers. The day those maneuvers start: September 25 (Free B92).
- Percentage of people who will boycott Federal elections in Montenegro: 70% (Montena TV poll, Montenegro, 8/22)
- Percentage of Montenegrins who favor staying in Federation: 70% (same)
- To make the same money that a worker in Montenegro makes in a month on average, a worker in Serbia has to work: 2.11 months (Federal Statistics Office, FRY, July 2000)
- Unemployment rate in Montenegro: 40%
He abandoned candidacy in the meantime: "The coalition 'List for Sandzak - Dr. Sulejman Ugljanin' has abandoned the idea of putting up the presidential candidacy of one of its officials at the upcoming elections and supported the candidacy of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia's (DOS) presidential candidate, writes Monday's Glas Javnosti. (V.I.P. Daily News Report, Aug. 28)
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Draskovic abandoned boycotting elections under pressure from his party's rank and file.
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