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Serbia’s victorious student movement faces tough challenges as it prepares to take power
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s youth movement pulled out a stunning election victory against the country’s long-time strongman ruler Aleksandar Vucic. But turning its promises of sweeping democratic reforms into reality could prove far more difficult.
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Huge crowds gather at final pre-election rally of Serbia’s students
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For Serbia’s students, years of protest come down to this weekend’s elections
Headline from Christian Science Monitor ·
Serbia holds a parliamentary election as strongman Vucic faces protesting students
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Serbia’s victorious student movement faces tough challenges as it prepares to take power
Unorthodox campaign is challenging the ruling party’s 12-year reign with a bold democratic experiment On a cool autumn evening, a team of Serbian student volunteers went canvassing in the housing estates of Krnjača, a Belgrade suburb.
On Oct. 25, Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling coalition will face Serbia’s student protest movement and established opposition parties at the ballot box. Vucic, who resigned as president in September to seek the premiership, wants to extend his Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year hold on power.
Thousands of people have greeted marching students arriving into Serbia’s capital on the eve of a closing campaign rally ahead of a tense parliamentary election on weekend challenging authoritarian leader Aleksandar Vucic
Polls on 25 October could bring a new political landscape in EU-candidate country where a student-led protest movement has become main opposition Serbia’s 6.5 million voters go to the polls on 25 October in a watershed parliamentary election characterised by civil unrest, a new political landscape, …
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Serbia’s protesting students have gathered for the final campaign rally ahead of the tense parliamentary election on weekend in a mounting challenge to the Balkan country’s powerful strongman Aleksandar Vucic
Student List movement hopes to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in a pivotal vote on Sunday Explained: what’s at stake in Serbia’s election? The key players, main issues and potential fallout About 150,000 supporters of Serbia’s opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrad…
After two years of student-led protests, Serbia will soon vote in what observers describe as a referendum-like snap election pitting strongman Aleksandar Vucic against the student movement.
Voters in Serbia will decide in a tense parliamentary ballot this weekend whether to extend the 14-year rule of Russia-backed populist strongman Aleksandar Vucic or back a youth movement behind nearly two years of protests seeking political changes in the Balkan country
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigned to run for prime minister, facing his biggest electoral challenge in 14 years by a political party founded by student protesters.
As voters head to the polls on Sunday, students are once again at the center of Serbian politics. Their movement began two years ago, in November of 2024, when the concrete canopy of the newly renovated railway station in Novi Sad, the country’s second largest city, collapsed and killed 16 people.
Serbia is holding an early parliamentary election on Sunday, with a student-led movement challenging the 14-year rule of a powerful leader and his right-wing populist party
Serbians go to polls to decide whether longtime strongman Aleksandar Vucic will return as prime minister or be ousted by unprecedented student-led opposition that wants to crack down on graft and boost democracy.
After two years of student-led, anti-corruption protests, Serbia is holding an early parliamentary election that could break long-time populist leader Aleksandar Vucic's grip on the Balkan country.
Nearly two years after a deadly railway station collapse sparked mass anti-corruption protests, Serbians are voting in a closely fought election that could end Aleksandar Vucic's 14-year grip on power.
Polls opened in Serbia on Sunday in what is set to be its most fiercely contested parliamentary election in more than 14 years, as a student-led movement seeks to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic.
Serbia votes on Sunday in what is set to be its most contested parliamentary election in more than 14 years, as a student-led movement seeks to oust the party of populist leader Aleksandar Vucic. The vote comes after nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy t…
Nearly two years after a deadly railway station collapse sparked mass anti-corruption protests, Serbians are voting in a closely fought election that could end Aleksandar Vucic's grip on power.
