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Sunday, 8 December, 2002, 22:12 GMT
In pictures: Serbia votes
Exit polls say low voter turnout - less than required 50% - has again made the repeat presidential elections in Serbia invalid, threatening more political infighting.

Vojislav Kostunica casts his ballot at a polling station in Belgrade
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica came to vote confident of his victory

Left picture: Leader of ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj votes. (AP) Right picture: Borislav Pelevic, the president of the Party of Serbian Unity.
...as opinion polls dismissed his two nationalist contenders as outsiders

Left picture: A man carries casts his ballot in the polling station in Belgrade. Right picture: A gypsy woman votes in Nis, 250km south of Belgrade
Votes trickled in steadily but half-way through, turnout was even lower than in October's failed poll

Yugoslav army soldiers march to the polling station in Belgrade
Observers blamed the failure on continued voter apathy and harsh weather conditions

A woman clasps her hands in greeting, as Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and his wife Zorica Radovic leave the polling station
...so Mr Kostunica may soon be jobless, as his post due to vanish when the Yugoslav federation is disbanded

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