Princess to run for president | 00:17 May 24 | AFP
BELGRADE -- Sunday -- on Sunday officially presented her candidacy for presidential elections due to be held on June 13, Tanjug news agency reports.
If elected, "my first step would be not to return monarchy, but to form a real state," the agency quoted Princess Jelisaveta as saying after presenting her candidacy to the electoral commission.
"I will do my best for a better future and a more beautiful Serbia," said Princess Jelisaveta, who fled Belgrade as a child with the Karadjordjevic royal family in 1941.
At the end of World War II, the ruling communists banned the royal family from returning to their homeland, and their property was confiscated.
After the fall of communism in the early 1990s, Princess Jelisaveta returned home and dedicated herself to humanitarian and charity work, but also became a prominent figure among Serbia's jet-set and fashion scene.
Princess Jelisaveta is the second woman to present her candidacy for the post vacant since 2002.
Among the 12 candidates so far confirmed by the electoral commission are ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic, democratic reformer Boris Tadic, ruling coalition leader Dragan Marsicanin, Ivica Dacic of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist party of Serbia and Serbia's richest man, Bogoljub Karic.
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I believe that this is Princess Elizabeth-mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg.
BELGRADE -- Sunday -- on Sunday officially presented her candidacy for presidential elections due to be held on June 13, Tanjug news agency reports.
If elected, "my first step would be not to return monarchy, but to form a real state," the agency quoted Princess Jelisaveta as saying after presenting her candidacy to the electoral commission.
"I will do my best for a better future and a more beautiful Serbia," said Princess Jelisaveta, who fled Belgrade as a child with the Karadjordjevic royal family in 1941.
At the end of World War II, the ruling communists banned the royal family from returning to their homeland, and their property was confiscated.
After the fall of communism in the early 1990s, Princess Jelisaveta returned home and dedicated herself to humanitarian and charity work, but also became a prominent figure among Serbia's jet-set and fashion scene.
Princess Jelisaveta is the second woman to present her candidacy for the post vacant since 2002.
Among the 12 candidates so far confirmed by the electoral commission are ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic, democratic reformer Boris Tadic, ruling coalition leader Dragan Marsicanin, Ivica Dacic of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist party of Serbia and Serbia's richest man, Bogoljub Karic.
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I believe that this is Princess Elizabeth-mother of actress Catherine Oxenberg.
