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Serbia votes as strongman Vučić faces grassroots challenge to 12-year rule – Europe live

Global Published 25 October 2026, 21:14 · archived 25 Oct 2026

The Student List movement is taking on authoritarian leader following nearly two years of protests against government and institutional corruptionWhat is at stake in Serbia’s election? Serbia’s former president and now prime ministerial candidate (again) Aleksandar Vučić rose to prominence in the 1990s as a radical nationalist, who supported the policies of Serbian expansion and ethnic cleansing led by Slobodan Milošević, who died of a heart attack in detention in The Hague during his trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.He served as ...

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