Pro-West Serbian President Boris Tadic won for the second time the Serbian elections for the presidency on Sunday against his rival, pro-Russian ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolic.

With Tadic as Serbia’s president, the country may be a step closer to the European Union as he is a supporter of the integration.

According to the Belgrade-based Center for Free Elections and Democracy, or CeSID, he won the election with 50.5 percent of the votes, while rival Nikolic, gained only 47.7 percent, AFP reports.

Nikolic was a supporter of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Yugoslavia and has closer ties with Russia.

However conservative nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, seems to be the one that lost the most as he refused to support Tadic.

His party refused to back the president due to the fact that he would not take a stand against the EU over Kosovo.

The government faces a collapse if Kostunica keeps opposing the signing of the deal EU has been offering Serbia, a deal which includes political dialogue, free trade, visa liberalization and educational cooperation.

The campaign has hovered around the drive for independence by Kosovo, Serbia’s province, which is under U.N. administration since 1999.

Tadic and Nikolic are against the independence of the province, which is populated mainly by Albanians. Nationalists believe that Kosovo is the cradle of the civilization of the Serbs. Tadic said that this doesn’t have to a hamper Serbia’s efforts to integrate in EU.

He said: "We give support today to our fellow people in Kosovo and show them that we will never let them down. We want peace, cooperation with all countries in the region, but we demand Serbia be respected,"

On Sunday Tadic told his supporters: "This is Serbia's victory. I think we have proven both to Europe and everywhere else in the world what kind of democracy we have in Serbia."