Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian leader brought down by students

Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in Serbia’s October 25 snap parliamentary election, won by the student-led Student List. A sample of votes projected 105 seats for his list in the 250-member parliament, compared with 135 to 140 for the Student List, as turnout reached its highest level in more than 30 years. The movement emerged after a station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024, killing 16 people, and grew around demands to tackle corruption and depoliticise public institutions. It was led during the campaign by Ilija Srdanovic, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad.