Conservative Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic won Serbia’s presidential election on Sunday with a landslide majority, taking 58 percent of the votes and avoiding a run-off, according to a result projection.

His nearest rival, opposition candidate Sasa Jankovic, took just 14 percent of the votes, the Ipsos polling group said, based on 40 percent of votes counted from a sample of polling stations.

The result confirmed Vucic’s almost unchallenged domination of the Balkan country, which he wants to take into the European Union while preserving strong ties with Russia.




with Reuters