Politics · 2026-10-26 · Morning briefing
Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's leader for more than a decade, conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a new student-led movement. Projections give the "Students' List" between 135 and 140 seats, well ahead of the roughly 105 for Vucic's ruling Serbian Progressive Party. The vote saw a turnout of nearly 70%, the highest since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992.
The opposition's victory is the culmination of nearly two years of protests. The movement was triggered by the collapse of a train station canopy in Novi Sad in 2024, a disaster that killed 16 people and stoked public anger over alleged corruption and unsafe public infrastructure.
In conceding, Vucic blamed independent media and alleged interference from unnamed European countries and the "US deep state". The result comes six months after his political ally, Viktor Orban, was defeated in neighbouring Hungary.
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