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Reformists win Serbian election

"For European Serbia," the country's pro-Western, pro-European Union governing coalition just won yesterday's parliamentary election in a surprise upset, defeating the nationalist Serbian Radical Party.

Here's some inside context from Zorana, our hard-partying Serbia correspondent:

Yes it is super - but, they have tough negotiations ahead to form a government. They may have to form government with socialists (old Milosveic party), so it will be interesting to see what happens. But it is a great victory for Democtratic Party and Tadic and it seems the voters realized EU is the only way to go for Serbia, and that nationalists are losing the grip with voters. I am optimistic, but lets see how the government negotiations develop...