A snap election in Serbia pits a grassroots student movement against President Vučić's party, after months of protests triggered by a deadly canopy collapse.
01Summary
- 01Serbians vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election seen as a referendum on Aleksandar Vučić's 12-year rule.
- 02The student movement 'Student List-Students Win', sparked by the Novi Sad train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people on 1 November 2024, is fielding candidates.
- 03Top candidate Ilija Srdanović is a cardiologist; other candidates include a former basketball star and a former central bank governor.
- 04President Vučić, unable to seek a third term, is leading his SNS party aiming to return as prime minister.
- 05Independent watchdog CRTA has warned of threats, violence, and uneven media coverage favouring the government.
02Why it matters
The outcome could end Vučić's long grip on power and reshape Serbia's domestic politics and its balancing act between the EU and Russia.
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