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| Results confirm Milosevic party routBELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) -- The final official results of Serbia's parliamentary election have confirmed reformers' overwhelming victory over toppled Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's Socialists. The results, released by the Republican Electoral Commission, gave the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) alliance headed by new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica 64.08 percent of the vote and 176 deputies in the 250-member Serbian parliament, as predicted. Milosevic's long-dominant Socialists were a distant second in Saturday's election, garnering 13.76 percent of the vote, which will give them 37 seats in parliament, the commission said in a statement. The ultra-nationalist Radical Party scored 8.5 percent to get 23 seats while another nationalist grouping, the Party of Serbian Unity founded by slain warlord Arkan, will have 14 deputies in parliament thanks to a 5.33 percent share.
All other parties scored less than the 5 percent required to be represented in parliament. Among those which failed to make the grade were the Yugoslav Left party of Milosevic's wife Mirjana Markovic and the Serbian Renewal Movement of Vuk Draskovic, a prominent member of the anti-Milosevic opposition for many years. The final figures differed little from results given out over the past few days by forecasters and the commission. The DOS's victory in Serbia, the dominant republic in Yugoslavia, comes less than three months after Milosevic was forced by a mass uprising to concede he had lost federal presidential elections after more than a decade in power. The electoral commission said turn-out in Saturday's Serbian election was 57.72 percent. Reuters contributed to this report. RELATED STORIES: 'New era' in Serbian politics RELATED SITES: See related sites about Europe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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