Ultra-nationalists take lead at Serbian polls

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.

The Radicals, who ruled Serbia with Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, gathered about 29% of yesterday’s vote, followed by the pro-Western Democratic Party with 23 percent and the ruling centre-right Popular Coalition with 17%, said CESID, an independent polling group, citing its own vote count at Serbian polling stations.