Seselj tomislav nikolic biography
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By Tim Judah |
They call him the "gravedigger".
Tomislav Nikolic, the leader of Serbia's extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party, once ran cemeteries in a small provincial town.
Seselj tomislav nikolic biography
If he has his way though, he will soon be burying the Serbian government.
Nikolic's Radicals are the largest party in the Serbian parliament |
Serbia's embattled liberal, pro-reform and pro-European elite is aghast and Western policymakers charged with dealing with the Balkans have made no contingency plans as to how to react if he wins the poll.
Mr Nikolic has come to the helm of the Radicals because its founder, Vojislav Seselj, is currently behind bars at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Mr Seselj stands accused of crimes against humanity including ethnic cleansing, torture, murder and the extermination of non-Serbs durin