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Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path [View all]
Source: Reuters
Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path
By Aleksandar Vasovic and Matt Robinson
BELGRADE | Sun May 20, 2012 6:25pm EDT
(Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union.
In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight years as head of state in a tense run-off election in which fewer than half of Serbia's eligible voters turned out.
"There is divine justice," Nikolic told jubilant supporters in the capital, Belgrade. "Serbia will not stray from its European path," he said, directly addressing concern in the West and the region over his hardline nationalist past during the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia.
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Tracing the Balkan country's gradual progress from pariah state under Milosevic to EU membership candidate in March, Nikolic has tried to reinvent himself as a modern, pro-European conservative since splitting in 2008 from his firebrand mentor Vojislav Seselj.
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By Aleksandar Vasovic and Matt Robinson
BELGRADE | Sun May 20, 2012 6:25pm EDT
(Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union.
In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight years as head of state in a tense run-off election in which fewer than half of Serbia's eligible voters turned out.
"There is divine justice," Nikolic told jubilant supporters in the capital, Belgrade. "Serbia will not stray from its European path," he said, directly addressing concern in the West and the region over his hardline nationalist past during the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia.
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Tracing the Balkan country's gradual progress from pariah state under Milosevic to EU membership candidate in March, Nikolic has tried to reinvent himself as a modern, pro-European conservative since splitting in 2008 from his firebrand mentor Vojislav Seselj.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/20/us-serbia-election-nikolic-idUSBRE84J0AF20120520
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