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BELGRADE, Serbia, June 21 (UPI) -- Boris Tadic, the reformist candidate in Serbia's presidential race, earned the endorsement of powerful allies during the weekend, Serbian media reported.
Serbian newspapers said Tadic had gained the support of candidates who had been eliminated in the first round of voting and, crucially, from Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
Tadic came in second in the first round of voting and faces a run off with the man who came in on top, Tomislav Nikolic, Saturday. Nikolic is the candidate of the hardline Serbian Radical Party whose leader is on trial for war crimes in the Netherlands. Should Nikolic take the presidency, relations with the West could cool again further setting back Serbia's hopes of integrating more closely with the European Union and eventually joining it.
Most political analysts say Tadic will win if reformists of the center-left and center-right can put aside their differences and rally together to defeat Nikolic.
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