Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s former president and dominant political figure for more than a decade, conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in the ... Show more
Protesters have taken to the streets of Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, for a second straight day, demanding accountability after a woman was killed despite ... Show more
In an interview with RFE/RL, Ilija Srdanovic, the lead candidate for Serbia's Student List, which ousted longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic in the ... Show more
Vucic's Defeat: Student List Celebrates Election Victory in Serbia: On Sunday, the Serbian people voted out their long-time leader, Aleksandar Vučić ...
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Serbian Parliamentary Election: Aleksandar Vučić Concedes Defeat in Parliamentary Election
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Serbian Parliamentary Election: Aleksandar Vučić Concedes Defeat: The long-time Serbian president has conceded that he and his party lost the parliamentary ...
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Serbia: Students demand resignations of heads of authorities: The victorious student movement does not want to wait for the formation of a government ...
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How did a student movement turn into a political force capable of taking power in Serbia -- without a traditional leader?
Key FactsVučić Says His Party Lost Serbia’s Snap Election
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: bbc.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: bbc.com
- Late Sunday, Vučić said final results were not yet available but that his Serbian Progressive Party had lost.
- Preliminary election commission figures indicated record turnout: 64.9% had voted by 18:00 local time, two hours before scheduled closing.
- The election followed two years of protests triggered by a train station canopy collapse in Novi Sad that killed 16 people.
- The Student List’s manifesto proposed removing officials who broke rules while acting against protesters, preventing party loyalists from heading public enterprises, and freeing public broadcasting from political control.
“No force can forever overpower a people who have decided to take their destiny into their own hands.”— Radomir Saicic, a Student List candidate, said this during a celebration in Belgrade, according to Reuters.
Serbia just elected the world’s brainiest parliament: Dozens of academics become politicians after student group’s stunning victory
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Die Liste der neuen oppositionellen Studentenbewegung hat die vorgezogene Parlamentswahl in Serbien überraschend klar gewonnen und Langzeitmachthaber ... Show more
OpinionOpposition’s Election Victory: The Miracle of Serbia: Until recently, it seemed unthinkable: The student-led opposition has ousted Aleksandar Vučić from office – ...
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Serbian students have just brought down the government - but who’s actually running the country now?
The Student List is on course for a clear majority in ... Show more
Protests are spreading across Kosovo after a woman who repeatedly pleaded for protection was killed, allegedly by her brother-in-law ... Show more
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A student-led movement has defeated Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić in a historic election victory, ending his party’s 14-year grip on power and ... Show more
Defeat for Vučić: Serbia's students win: A leaderless student movement has defeated long-time ruler Aleksandar Vučić. How will it govern?
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What Progressive Movements Around the World Can Learn From Serbia's Student List | Common Dreams
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Parliamentary elections in Serbia: Governing trumps studying: Serbia's student list celebrates a landslide victory. After years of protest ...
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OpinionImpact of the Serbian Election: The Cards Are Being Reshuffled: The fact that Serbian youth toppled Vučić came as a surprise to many in neighboring countries ...
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Vučić voted out: Serbian stubbornness and pride: The long-overdue removal of the authoritarian ex-President Vučić is thanks to the Serbs' students and ...
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Change of Power in Serbia: Vučić Admits Defeat to Student List: He will remain in the country and join the opposition, the former president said. Voter turnout ...
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Car horns and sirens fill the streets of Belgrade as celebrations continue after Aleksandar Vucic's election defeat. Nevene Bogdanovic explains what comes ... Show more
Belgrade in rapture as Serbian students topple Vucic in historic election: Trams and traffic halted by crowds. Tens of thousands of people choking the city's ...
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Election in Serbia: Vučić faces his first election: In Serbia, the "Student List" wants to oust long-time President Vučić from power. He, in turn ...
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In a Vienna Bakery, Fresh Pastries and a Backdoor for Serbian Votes: Ahead of a defining parliamentary election in Serbia, an unofficial voting pipeline for the ...
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After the ruling Progressive Party’s defeat in Serbia’s elections, people in Belgrade gathered to clean up Pioneers Park, which had been occupied for months by ... Show more
Ten days that could shake the world: democratic norms at stake in four pivotal elections
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Serbia's Students' List insisted on a decentralized structure throughout its campaign. But how can a 'leaderless' movement govern? One of ... Show more
What's it like living in a city that's seen huge student-led protests against corruption in government? Meet Tanja ... Show more
Talking to Jahnavi | A Student Movement Has Won Elections in Serbia. Here's How That Happened
Kori Udovički, a former Serbian deputy prime minister and ... Show more
Letter from Washington: US Conservatives Lose Their Ally in Serbia: DC lobbyists working for Albanian and Bosnian politicians look to burnish tarnished ...
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Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election: Vučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in ...
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After the parliamentary elections in Serbia: I breathe differently: Since Aleksandar Vučić's election defeat, Serbia has been in a frenzy of jubilation ...
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Serbia after Vučić: Student movement wins the election: Jubilation in Belgrade: After years of political dominance, Aleksandar Vučić loses to a student movement ...
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The list of the new opposition student movement "Studentska Lista" won the snap election with just over 52 percent of the votes, securing an absolute majority ... Show more
Serbia’s students demand resignations in police, judiciary as they prepare to take power
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The Japan Times Oct 23
Around 150,000 rally in Belgrade as Serbia heads to pivotal poll: A leaderless movement of student-backed candidates is the biggest threat former President ...
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Putin Suffers Major Blow as Strongman Ally’s Reign Is Ended: The Kremlin has lost another foreign ally in a democratic election.
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Key FactsStudent List Wins Election as Vučić Concedes
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thedailybeast.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thedailybeast.com
- The Student List is set to hold 140 parliamentary seats, against 105 for Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party, and has yet to select a leader.
- CRTA head Rasa Nedeljkov called turnout record-breaking and historic, and a positive sign for Serbia.
- Pressure on Vučić grew after a station canopy collapse in 2024 killed 16; allegations concerned shoddy construction and endemic corruption.
- Before the election, Russia and Balkans expert Denis Cenusa said Moscow would prefer Vučić to remain in office.
“This is the victory of the conviction that Serbia can and will do better. We call on all citizens to act peacefully and in dignified manner. We didn’t fight for months to lose it.”— Radomir Saicic, a chemistry professor and one of the leaders of the student-backed movement, after its election victory.
Serbia: Student-backed election winners demand sweeping resignations: Days after ousting Aleksandar Vučić's party from power, Student List MPs call for top ...
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On October 25, Serbia votes. Can a student movement unseat the ruling elite?
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Stevan Dojčinović is the editor-in-chief of KRIK, which has spent over a decade exposing corruption and criminality that permeated the Serbian state ... Show more
OpinionThe Guardian view on Serbia’s student revolution: from principled protest to power
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‘Students Have Won’: Overwhelming Turnout Shatters Serbia’s Entrenched Regime: Dismissed two years ago as schoolkids skipping class, Serbia’s student-led ...
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Serbia goes to polls to choose between Vučić and student movement : The election is being seen as a referendum on Vučić’s political dominance and the political ...
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‘This is a symbol for Europe’: Joy on streets of Belgrade after Vucic election defeat
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Parliamentary elections in Serbia: Election observers in Serbia report irregularities
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Serbia's students won the election. Now they must navigate Russia and frayed EU relations
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New beginnings in Belgrade: What’s next for Serbia’s students - European Council on Foreign Relations
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Sunday’s election marked a turning point in Serbia, with the ruling SNS party of Aleksandar Vučić handed a resounding defeat by a student movement that ... Show more
Protesters enter Serbian pro-Vucic TV station, call for arrest of editor: Protesters entered a Serbian television station supportive of former President ...
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Serbia’s former President Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat in parliamentary election to student-led opposition — Meduza
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Change of power in Serbia: ➡️ "Students win": Record voter turnout in election brings change of power in Serbia | Tiroler Tageszeitung Online To the article: |~1~|
With Aleksandar Vučić's defeat, Belgrade sees the next long-reigning democracy-hater voted out of office. A signal also to Europe's right-wing ... Show more
Student list wins election in Serbia: Vučić concedes defeat: Many viewed the election as a referendum on Vučić's power and the political system in Serbia ...
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Why Serbian elections are so important - as students challenge 12 years of Vučić rule
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Serbia’s students have won. Why their revolution still has to wait a bit longer.: Serbia’s elections may have resulted in shock, but the incoming Student List ...
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Serbia's path to the EU remains very long even after Vučić: Serbia's accession process has been stalled for five years. To get it moving again ...
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Serbian Students’ Mass Support ‘Forced Vucic to Concede’ Election: The opposition Student List won by such a wide margin that Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar ...
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Parliamentary election in Serbia: Chancellor Merz congratulates election winners in Serbia
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What Does Aleksandar Vucic’s Defeat Mean for Balkan Autocrats?: Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic vowed to defeat the student protest movement ...
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The Herculean Task Facing the New Serbian Government from the Student Movement: Serbia’s population has entrusted the opposition student movement with the task ...
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Who's In Charge? The Faces Of Serbia's Student-Backed Political Movement : The Student List, a political grouping of 250 representatives that just won Serbia’s ...
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Knife attacker shot dead outside Israeli embassy in Belgrade: It is the second attack on an embassy guard in two years
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Political earthquake in Serbia: The end of the Vucic Era and the rise of the student list
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European Leaders Welcome Victory for Serbia’s Opposition Student List: European officials and leaders from Balkan states congratulated the Student List on its ...
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OpinionSerbia: Vučić was practically unbeatable. They managed it anyway.: This election, too, was neither free nor fair. The fact that Vučić admitted his defeat so ...
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Is Serbia on the verge of a political reckoning? This Sunday, the country's longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić will face a formidable challenge to his ... Show more
Serbia's Student Movement: How Vucic Was Toppled: The student opposition movement struck a chord with the Serbian population, who desired political change ...
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Peaceful demise of Vučić in Serbia stands in contrast to second weekend of riots in French cities
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Serbian students surge to power with defeat of strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic: In the country’s election Sunday, the win went to candidates backed by a ...
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Many in Serbia’s Youth Movement Fear a Rigged Election on Sunday: Serbia’s student-led opposition enters Sunday’s parliamentary election locked in a dead heat ...
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Student List Wins Outright Majority in Serbian Parliamentary Polls: Latest figures confirm that the Student List won an outright majority in the parliamentary ...
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