AKIPRESS.COM - The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has won a big parliamentary majority in the general election, BBC reported referring to vote monitors.

Thus, the center-right party won almost 49% of the vote, or 157 seats in the 250-seat Parliament of Serbia.

The Socialists, coalition partners for SNS, were running second with 15%.

SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic is now poised to become the country's next Prime Minister.

It will be the first time in Serbia's short democratic history that one party has won an overall majority in the Parliament.

The party's success in the polls is seen as driven by its anti-corruption campaign and by its move to start EU membership talks.

The opposition Democratic Party had been trailing third in the polls.