There won't be blood

It was a telling contrast. The pro-Western incumbent Serbian President Boris Tadic was somewhat subdued even though he won no less than 35 per cent of this week's hotly- contested Serbian presidential election. Tadic was running neck-to-neck with the nationalist contender Tomislav Nikolic, but it was the latter who emerged as the undisputed winner of the presidential poll, edging ahead of Tadic with 40 per cent. Nikolic was triumphant. "I want to unify Serbia," he told his supporters in the Serbian capital Belgrade after the results of the presidential poll were announced. "And, no one can stop me," he thundered.