NATIONALIST Tomislav Nikolic won the most votes in the first round of Serbia’s presidential election on Sunday but not enough to win outright, exit polls showed, setting up a run-off with pro-western President Boris Tadic.

Serbian ultra-nationalist Radicals won most votes in Serbia’s parliamentary election, but several pro-democratic groups won enough seats to form a new government if they can settle their differences.

Serbian ultra-nationalist Radicals won most votes in Serbia’s parliamentary election today, but did not win enough to rule alone, an independent polling group said tonight.

Serbs voted today in a closely-contested parliamentary election between pro-Western democrats and ultranationalists to determine whether the troubled Balkan nation drifts toward mainstream Europe or returns to its wartime nationalist past.

A PRO-WESTERN reformer won Serbia’s presidential run-off vote last night, defeating a hard-line nationalist ally of former autocrat Slobodan Milosevic, an independent election monitoring group said.