Serbia’s students demand resignations in police, judiciary as they prepare to take power
The student-backed list won 52.8% of the vote and about 140 seats, giving it enough support to govern alone.
- On Thursday, Serbia's student movement demanded the immediate resignation of top police, intelligence, and judiciary officials in Belgrade as they prepare to assume power after their historic election victory.
- The Students' List movement swept Sunday's parliamentary election against Aleksandar Vucic's right-wing Serbian Progressive Party, which has ruled unchallenged for 14 years and gradually taken control of state institutions.
- Protests erupted two years ago after a collapsed canopy at a train station in Novi Sad killed 16 people, prompting student demands for urgent investigations into infrastructure corruption cases previously sidelined under Vucic.
- General manager of state broadcaster Serbian RTS, Manja Grcic, resigned Thursday as Vucic accused election winners of "revolutionary terror" following groups storming the Informer TV station.
- Serbia formally seeks European Union membership, a bid stalled under Vucic due to democratic backsliding, as students urge election authorities to finalize results to enable Parliament formation.
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Serbia's student movement on Thursday demanded the resignation of top officials in the police, intelligence agencies and judiciary, as it prepares to take power after a historic election victory over Aleksandar Vucic last weekend.
Serbia's student movement on Thursday demanded the resignation of top officials in the police, intelligence agencies and judiciary, as it prepares to take power after a historic election victory over Aleksandar Vucic last weekend.
The Student List, which won Sunday's snap parliamentary elections in Serbia, has demanded the resignations of leaders in the police, intelligence services, prosecutors' offices and other state institutions. It has also demanded investigations into alleged misuse of public funds and urged employees to prevent the destruction of documents during the transition period.
The request also refers to the President of the Constitutional Court.
The representatives of the opposition movement Student List, who won the Serbian elections, demanded the resignation of the leaders of the Republic's police and intelligence services. The winner of the Serbian election, the opposition student list, demands that Vladimir Orlic, director of the Security and Information Agency, immediately resign, wrote TASS. "Remembering that the Security and Information Agency has so far acted as a security tool …
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