Early presidential elections were held in the
Republic of Montenegro
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on 9 February 2003, after the
December 2002 elections had been declared invalid due to insufficient
voter turnout
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.
[Republic of Montenegro Presidential Election of 2002-2003]
Adam Carr
Background
The low turnout was caused by a boycott by the major opposition parties, voters being disillusioned with politics, and poor weather conditions on polling day which resulted in 80 polling stations in mountainous areas being closed due to snow.
Montenegro poll fails
BBC News, 9 February 2003
Results
Although Dragan Hajduković Dragan S. Hajduković (Cyrillic: Драган С. Хајдуковић; born 11 June 1949 in Cetinje, SR Montenegro, SFRY), is a Montenegrin physics professor, astrophysicist and physicist, employed to CERN, environmental activist and perennial can ...
was a member of the Greens of Montenegro The Greens of Montenegro ( cnr, italic=yes, Zeleni Crne Gore, ''Зелени Црне Горе'' (Montenegrin Cyrillic)) was a short-lived green politics party in Montenegro. It was officially registered in the government as a non-governmental organ ...
, he ran as an independent.
Aftermath
Although Filip Vujanović
Filip Vujanović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Филип Вујановић, ; born 1 September 1954) is a Montenegrin politician who served as the President of Montenegro from 2003 to 2018.
Early life and career
Born and raised in Belgrade, Vujanov ...
won the election with 85% of the vote, turnout was less than the required 50%, so the election was declared invalid.[ Fresh elections were called for May 2003, when the turnout rule was abolished.
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President
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