Serbia votes as students seek to unseat Vucic in snap election
- With limited polling stations available abroad for Sunday's election, Serbians are forming grassroots networks to arrange long-distance travel and accommodation. The Serbian Electoral Commission approved only 93 sites globally.
- Critics allege the government deliberately restricted polling locations to suppress turnout among expatriates, who are viewed as less supportive of populist leader Aleksandar Vucic. The ruling Serbian Progressive Party faces its biggest electoral challenge from a student-led movement.
- Volunteers launched VoteBnB, matching hundreds of requests with 1,300 accommodation and 750 ride-share offers. Voters in Canada face 3,500-kilometre journeys from Vancouver to Toronto, while Australians are organizing 900-kilometre trips from Brisbane to Sydney.
- Many voters face grueling middle-of-the-night polling times to align with Serbian time zones. Irina Djordjic, a Serbian citizen in Canada, said, "Some people have small children, some can't be absent for too long."
- Tens of thousands of overseas ballots could influence the tight race, as participants describe their efforts as supporting the student movement. This reflects broader efforts to reverse Serbia's democratic backsliding under Vucic in the Balkan nation.
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The early Sunday elections in Serbia were marked by an exceptionally high turnout, which should benefit the Student List. At the end of the day, while the riot police deployed in Belgrade, the tensions were alive.It is 6:30 a.m. this Sunday morning. The offices will open their doors only in half an hour, but a line is already being formed in front of the primary school Saints-Cyrille-et-Method of Belgrade. It is in Zvezdara, a quiet and resident…
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Early parliamentary elections in Serbia recorded a much higher turnout than in the previous election. Participation was, at 12 o'clock, 14 percentage points higher than that recorded at the same time in the previous parliamentary elections, held in December 2023. Article Massive presence in the early parliamentary elections in Serbia. At 16 o'clock, almost as much as the entire day of the 2023 election. Aleksandar Vucic's party, in competition w…
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