AKIPRESS.COM - President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev congratulated Serbia's former Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on being elected as President of Serbia.

Vucic won about 55% of the vote, well above the threshold to avoid a run-off, with most results counted on Monday.

Mr Vucic is pro-EU, but is accused by his rivals of using the election to tighten his grip on power.

He became Prime Minister after his pro-EU nationalist Progressive Party won a landslide victory in early parliamentary elections in 2014.

In the latest campaign, the 47-year-old highlighted Serbia's economic growth under his tenure.

He was previously a radical Serb nationalist who served under President Slobodan Milosevic in the late 1990s.