Serbia votes as students seek to unseat Vucic in snap election
A student-led challenge tests Aleksandar Vucic’s 14-year grip on power as polls show a tight race and 6.45 million voters are eligible.
- Serbia will hold its 15th National Assembly election on Sunday, October 25, 2026, with 2,418 candidates across 18 lists competing for 250 seats in a single nationwide contest.
- Aleksandar Vučić, candidate for prime minister, resigned in September to lead the Serbian Progressive Party, aiming to extend his 14-year political dominance following the 2024 Novi Sad station collapse.
- Ipsos polls from October 22 place the Progressive Party at 47.4% and the student-backed list at 40.0%, with parties needing a 3% vote threshold for parliamentary entry.
- The electoral commission finalized the voter register at 6,451,292 on Friday, while prediction markets show $3.6 million in wagers, currently pricing the list led by Vučić at 71.5% to win.
- Framing the election as a referendum on corruption, opposition candidates campaign under the slogan "Serbia or the mafia," testing whether a student-led movement can challenge the current political order.
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Around 6.45 million voters will decide today in early parliamentary elections in Serbia whether to continue the rule of Aleksandar Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) or the political change promised by the Student List, which emerged from the mass protest movement. According to opinion polls, these two lists have the most support. According to the election commission, 18 candidate parties will participate in the elections […] The post A dec…
Serbia holds a parliamentary election as populist Vucic faces protesting students – WTOP News
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbians are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that is seen as a showdown between the Balkan country’s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic and a movement of university students who led protests against him for almost two years. Though Serbia’s 6.4 million voters get to choose from 18 parties hoping to enter...
Who is more Euro-oriented: Vučić is facing the Student List in the elections
Snap parliamentary elections are taking place in Serbia on October 25. The party of Aleksandar Vučić, who has led the country for over a decade, first as prime minister and then as president, is facing the Student List, which grew out of a...
In Serbia, early parliamentary elections are taking place on 25 October: Alexander Vuccic's party, which has been running the country for more than a decade, first as Prime Minister, then as President, opposes the Student List, which grew out of a mass protest movement.
Students are posing a significant challenge to Serbia's long-time strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic, who has been in power for more than a decade, as voting takes place in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
It would be the first time in twelve years, and in addition against a student protest movement: we vote on Sunday
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