Serbia: Vucic Seeks Return to Prime Ministership – The Challenge to His 14-Year Rule

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The parliamentary elections in Serbia on Sunday are unprecedentedly tense: can recently resigned President Vucic continue as prime minister and thus retain power, or will the students, who are yearning for an end to widespread corruption, win? Five questions.

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Ana Maria Păcurau, the director of the programme "Miza di Zileo" and correspondent Realidada PLUS at the White House, said on Sunday, after opening the polls in Serbia, that parliamentary elections are announced tense, on the background of the confrontation between Aleksandar Vučić's party and the pro-European opposition, supported by the wave of anti-corruption protests. The stake of the vote is one major: the continuation of the political syst…

Zeit Online

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Aleksandar Vučić is the strong man of Serbia. Now he wants to become Prime Minister. But now he could fail in the system he created himself.

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Will students in Serbia put an end to twelve years of rule by autocratic leader Aleksandar Vucic? That is the question at the heart of today's parliamentary elections in the Balkan country. They are the most exciting since Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to power, as the Student List stands a serious chance. According to polls, the two camps are neck and neck. Vucic stepped down as president in September and now wants to becom…

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Despite the immoderate use of administrative resources to win highly contested legislatures, this Sunday, October 25, the resigning president, who is running for the post of Prime Minister, appears in a delicate position. Civil society fears that he might be tempted to use force in the event of defeat.

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Serbia's authoritarian President Aleksandar Vucic wants to win the election today and become Prime Minister. However, the strong protest movement of the students could disarm him after 14 years. Who is Vucic? By Oliver Soos.