51.   They complained that ballot papers had failed to turn up and names of people with the required Croatian documents were missing from voting lists.

52.   Voting lists were often posted late and were badly arranged.

53.   Voting lists which had been due to arrive from Zagreb were incomplete with names missing and ballot papers were delivered late.

54.   Local and international observers charged there were substantial irregularities including incomplete and inaccurate voting lists.

55.   Some self-styled illiterate voters even gave judges brochures bearing the names of their preferred candidates and asked them to mark these names on the official voting list.

56.   The Coptic Patriarch Pope Shenuda II launched a campaign earlier in the year to register Copts on voting lists.