Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat in historic snap election with record turnout
Also reported by CBS News
Summary
Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in a snap parliamentary election to a student-led movement, ending his party’s hold on power. Turnout reached nearly 70%, the highest since Yugoslavia broke up in 1992, after almost two years of protests sparked by a deadly train station canopy collapse.Key Facts
- A representative sample by CESID-IPSPS projected 138 seats for the Student List and 104 for Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party in the 250-seat parliament.
- Vucic said preliminary results showed the Student List had won and conceded the election.
- Ethnic minority parties are expected to take the remaining seats.
- Nearly 70% of eligible voters turned out, according to the article.
- The protests began after a canopy collapsed at a train station in Novi Sad in 2024, killing 16 people.
- Student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and authoritarianism continued for almost two years before the snap election.
- Police cordoned off an area near the election commission headquarters in Belgrade, and local media reported several violent incidents during voting.
