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BELGRADE, Serbia, June 14 (UPI) -- Hardline nationalist Tomislav Nikolic came top in the first round of voting in Serbia's presidential elections, results showed Monday.
Nikolic, who took 31.6 percent of the vote will go into a run off in two weeks with Democratic Party candidate Boris Tadic who took 27.9 percent of the vote and came in second.
Electoral rules require a candidate to win at least 50 percent of the vote to win outright.
Nikolic is the candidate of the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader, Vojislav Seselj, is facing war crimes charges in the Netherlands.
Though Nikolic insisted Monday he would win in the second round of voting, most analysts of the Balkan country say he will face an uphill struggle as reformists gather to oppose him.
The weekend vote was Serbia's fourth attempt in two years to elect a president. Law makers changed the rules this time around to make the result valid regardless of turnout which was estimated at around 46 percent.
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