Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat to student led movement in parliamentary election

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections held on Sunday. While final results are pending, early projections suggest the Student List will secure between 135 and 140 seats, while Vucic's party will have 105, with no other party entering parliament. The snap elections were called by Vucic in September following two years of student-led demonstrations against corruption and authoritarianism, triggered by the collapse of a train station canopy that killed 16 people in Novi Sad in 2024.

The student movement, now the greatest threat to Vucic since his rise to power in 2014, gained significant support and witnessed record-breaking voter turnout of 67.6%, the highest since 1992. The student victory signifies a major political shift in Serbia, comparable to the defeat of Hungary's Viktor Orban earlier this year.