From the Streets to the Ballot Box: Serbia’s Students Hope for an Election Win

Serbia’s student movement, now represented by the political list “Student List–Students Win,” is challenging the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its leader, Aleksandar Vučić, in the October 25 snap election. The movement grew after a concrete canopy collapsed at the renovated Novi Sad railway station on November 1, 2024, killing 16 people and prompting allegations of corruption and scrutiny of construction safety. Kosta Golubović, a law student at the University of Novi Sad, calls for fundamental change and points to weakened institutions, questionable privatisations, and failures in the judiciary and education system. Citizens, teachers, professors, and other experts have joined the movement over the past two years.