‘Swift justice’: Student List supporters focus on cleaning up Serbia’s rotten institutions
Summary
Serbia’s Student List, which the article says won a decisive election victory, says it will prioritize anti-corruption measures and reform public institutions. Its candidates called for senior security officials to be dismissed and for cases linked to a railway-station canopy collapse that killed 16 people to be reopened or expedited.Key Facts
- The Student List is described as a direct-democracy movement, not a traditional political party.
- The movement’s candidates called for the dismissal of several senior law-enforcement officials, including chiefs of criminal police, the gendarmerie and an anti-terrorism unit.
- Candidate Svetlana Stanarević called for the head of Serbia’s internal intelligence agency to resign, accusing the agency of acting as a party security service.
- The canopy at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad collapsed two years earlier, killing 16 people; the article says there had been no convictions.
- Candidate Iva Marković said police and prosecutors should be able to do their jobs without political pressure.
- The students chose the parliamentary candidates, but the article says they will not directly control them after they take office.
- Borko Stefanović, a candidate who had opposed Slobodan Milošević, said he did not want a new democratic coalition to lose its early promise.
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