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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Radical leads Serb presidential election |
 | | BELGRADE -- A hard-line nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic, won the most votes in Serbia's presidential election yesterday, but he is expected to face an uphill challenge to defeat Boris Tadic, a popular reformer, in a runoff later this month. |
 | | Nikolic, whose Radical Party is led by a war crimes suspect, Vojislav Seselj, now detained in The Hague, came in first in the field of 15 with 30.1 percent of votes against 27.3 for Tadic, according to a result projection by independent monitors. |
 | | Diplomats had warned that Nikolic as president would be bad for Serbia's ties with the West and would scare off badly needed foreign investors, even though he has toned down his rhetoric and despite the fact that the powers of the presidency are limited. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/14/radical_leads_serb_presidential_election_hard_liner_faces_rising_star_tadic?mode=PF (493 words) |
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