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🇷🇸 Early elections are taking place in Serbia after a student movement rose up against Vučić’s party and sparked mass protests across the country
The main contest unfolded between Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party and the opposition “Student List.” According to the latest Ipsos poll, Vučić’s party has 47% support, while the students have 40%, Reuters reports.
The protests in Serbia began at the end of 2024, after the collapse of a canopy at the Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people. The tragedy provoked widespread outrage over corruption and the impunity of the authorities. The student movement became one of the main driving forces of the protests.
In September Vučić dissolved parliament and then announced he would step down as president in order to run for the prime minister’s seat.
Regarding Ukraine, Vučić takes an ambivalent stance: Serbia officially recognizes Ukraine’s territorial integrity and does not recognize Russia’s annexation of its territories, but at the same time refuses to join sanctions against Russia and maintains relations with Moscow. Belgrade has also allowed deliveries of Serbian ammunition to Ukraine via intermediaries.
Polling stations will close at 21:00 Kyiv time; the first preliminary results are expected at around 23:00.
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