
A student-led movement seeks to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in a snap parliamentary election.
Polls opened in Serbia for a high-stakes parliamentary election as a student-led movement challenges veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic's party following mass protests over a fatal railway station canopy collapse.
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Protests were sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people.
Polls opened in Serbia on Sunday in what is set to be its most fiercely contested parliamentary election in more than 14 years, as a student-led movement seeks to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic.
The snap vote is the culmination of nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people – a tragedy widely blamed on corruption.
The disaster triggered some of Serbia’s largest protests since the fall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.
The Students’ List, a selection of candidates backed by the largely leaderless movement, now poses the biggest challenge to Vucic’s right-wing populist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which has dominated politics throughout its tenure.

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