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Serbia votes as students seek to unseat Vucic in snap election

Global Published 25 October 2026, 10:01 · archived 25 Oct 2026

BELGRADE: Serbia votes on Sunday as a mass student protest movement seeks to unseat long-time populist leader Aleksandar Vucic who has held power first as prime minister and then as president for more than a decade. The snap parliamentary elections, called by Vucic in September, come after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism triggered by the deaths of 16 people when a train station canopy collapsed in the city of Novi Sad in 2024. The students have since gained widespread support. Polling stations open at 7 a.m. and close at...

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