BELGRADE: Serbia’s pro-EU Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic won a landslide victory in the country’s general election, the electoral commission confirmed on Monday after nearly all the ballots were counted.

Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party won 48.25 per cent of the vote, giving him 131 MPs in the 250-seat parliament — down from 158 in the last election, the commission said, based on 98 percent of votes counted.

The Socialists, Vucic’s coalition partners in the outgoing government, came second with 11.01pc of the vote.

They were followed by the far-right Radicals of ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj, who won 8.05pc of the vote. Seselj was recently acquitted of war crimes charges arising from the 1990s Balkans conflicts.

Swept along by a resurgence in support, the anti-EU and pro-Russian Radicals were set to return to parliament with 21 MPs, after failing to win any seats in the 2012 and 2014 elections.—AFP