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Serbia Student Protests Elections

21 Oct to 25 Oct
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Serbia Student Protests Elections. (2026, October 25). The Aporia. https://the-aporia.com/event/95322

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BELGRADE, Oct 25 - 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.

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Twenty-four Serbian civil society groups warned this week that conditions for “free and fair elections” were lacking, and a monitoring group cited more than 100 violent incidents during the campaign.

3 of 8 outletsfirst reported 22 Octwording from Al Jazeera

The tragedy, widely blamed on corruption, triggered some of Serbia’s largest protests since the fall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.

3 of 8 outletsfirst reported 22 Octwording from The Straits Times

Many of the 250 candidates of the Student List running for the 250-seat Parliament are drawn from academia or are deliberate political outsiders.

3 of 8 outletsfirst reported 23 Octwording from The Straits Times

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.

3 of 8 outletsfirst reported 25 Octwording from The Straits Times

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  1. 21 Oct

    Days-long student marches were aimed at reaching Serbia’s rural areas that are Vucic’s traditional strongholds.

    2 outlets · Toronto Star
  2. 22 Oct

    BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Serbia ‘s protesting youth movement gathered Thursday at the final campaign rally ahead of a tense weekend parliamentary election in a challenge to the Balkan country’s powerful populist strongman Aleksandar Vucic.

    3 outlets · Toronto Star
  3. 23 Oct

    Many of the 250 candidates of the Student List running for the 250-seat Parliament are drawn from academia or are deliberate political outsiders.

    3 outlets · The Straits Times
  4. 25 Oct

    BELGRADE, Oct 25 - 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.

    4 outlets · The Straits Times

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