Serbia votes on October twenty-fifth

Serbia will hold a snap parliamentary election on October twenty-fifth. The vote tests whether President Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party can extend its fourteen-year grip on power against a student-led movement.

Novi Sad collapse sparked nationwide protests

In November two thousand twenty-four, a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in Novi Sad, killing sixteen people.Demands for accountability grew into a nationwide movement against alleged corruption and government handling of the tragedy.

Students became the movement's driving force

Students emerged as the movement's driving force, organising some of Serbia's biggest demonstrations since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic.

Vucic resigned to lead SNS campaign

The parliamentary election was not due until late two thousand twenty-seven. But Vucic resigned from the presidency in September, ahead of the end of his second and final constitutional term, and is leading the Serbian…

Student List challenges with fresh faces

The main challenger is the student-backed Student List, Students Win, which brings together candidates with little or no previous political experience, including academics, teachers and other professionals.

Young voters mobilised after decades of disengagement

Young people, long considered Serbia's most politically disengaged group, have become the core of its largest social mobilisation in decades.

“The political dynamic has changed from the ground up.”

Turnout will decide the outcome

The Serbian Progressive Party retains a disciplined core electorate, supported by a clientelist model of government.The student list must unite opposition-minded voters and mobilise habitual non-voters and the undecided.Turnout will be decisive, Vasiljevic said.

A new government faces institutional rebuilding

Winning power would be only the beginning. Srdan Majstorovic, chair of the governing board of the European Policy Centre, said a new government would face the far harder task of rebuilding a democratic system after…

Foreign policy remains the biggest unknown

Igor Bandovic, director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, said foreign policy remained the biggest unknown in the student list's programme.

Polls close Sunday at eight pm local time

Voters will elect all two hundred fifty members of the National Assembly in a single nationwide constituency. Polls will close on Sunday at eight pm local time. Preliminary results are expected about two hours later.