Serbia election seen as vote on EU membership

  24 April 2016    Read: 918
Serbia election seen as vote on EU membership
Polls have opened in Serbia in a parliamentary election seen as a de facto referendum on whether the country should seek EU membership.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called the vote two years early, seeking a clear mandate to continue with reforms required for eventual EU membership.

Polls have suggested a win for his Progressive Party.

But discontent with Mr Vucic`s pro-EU stance looks set to bring ultra-nationalists back into parliament.

They oppose membership to the European bloc and favour closer ties with Russia.

These include Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, whose popularity has been boosted by his recent acquittal of crimes against humanity at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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