Serbia’s Tadic claims victory for pro-EU camp
Monday, May 12th, 2008Serbia’s President Boris Tadic claimed victory for the pro-European Union camp on Sunday after his party and its allies took the biggest share of the vote in an election battle with hardline nationalists.
This is a great day for Serbia,” Boris Tadic proclaimed after an independent monitoring group that carried out a parallel vote count nationwide said his bloc won 39 per cent about 10 per cent more than the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party.
“The citizens of Serbia have confirmed Serbia’s European path,” he said. “Serbia will be in the European Union. We have promised that, and we will fulfil that.”
Sunday’s elections […]