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From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is this the SLP of Scargill fame?
>
> Thanks,
> Macdonald
>
It most certainly is!
regards,
James.
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> From: "hkb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:39 PM
> Subject: S.L.P: Yugoslav Elections - A Lesson In Outside Interference
>
>
> > SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY
> > ======================
> >
> > YUGOSLAV ELECTIONS -
> > A LESSON IN OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
> >
> > At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Britain's Socialist
> > Labour Party sent a three-person delegation to participate in
> international
> > monitoring of the Yugoslav elections held on 24 September. We were the
> only
> > British representatives among 250 observers invited from around the
> world.
> >
> > Our delegation travelled extensively throughout the country, was able to
> > talk to officials and voters and visited numerous polling stations,
> gaining
> > first-hand experience of what was actually taking place during an
election
> > which was being misreported in many parts of the world.
> >
> > >From what we saw, the Federal Electoral Commission, an elected
all-party
> > body, did everything in its power to ensure that people were able to
cast
> > their votes without intimidation and in an orderly manner - and
certainly
> in
> > accordance with procedures which we would expect in a democratic, free
> > election.
> >
> > In Serbia, we visited the Muslim areas of Kraljevo and Novi Pazar as
well
> as
> > observing polling in the capital, Belgrade.
> >
> > It was only in Montenegro that we observed the following irregularities:
> >
> > the so-called Democratic Opposition which boycotted the elections in
> > Montenegro nevertheless gathered outside polling stations there in clear
> > violation of election procedures, using intimidating behaviour towards
> > prospective voters;
> >
> > we received many first-hand reports from people who stated they had been
> > threatened with the loss of their jobs if they turned out to vote;
> >
> > we were in no doubt that countless refugees from Kosovo had been
> > deliberately excluded from the electoral lists in Montenegro despite the
> > fact that their identity cards, issued in 1999, gave them the right to
> vote,
> > and were thus also prevented from voting.
> >
> > We could only conclude that these tactics of intimidation and
> > disenfranchisement were designed to benefit the so-called Democratic
> > Opposition.
> >
> > We were also appalled at the blatant outside interference in the
> procedures
> > from Western governments which are obviously seeking to influence the
> > outcome of these elections by promising economic aid and the lifting of
> > sanctions if the Yugoslav people vote in accordance with the wishes of
> these
> > governments and the European Union.
> >
> > Mick Appleyard Liz Screen Ian Johnson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
