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Serbia’s students demand resignations in police, judiciary as they prepare to take power
The student-backed winners seek a cleanup of state institutions and say 52.8% of voters gave them a mandate to govern alone, officials said.
- 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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After the election victory of the student list, Aleksandar Vucic's power apparatus crumbles. Many citizens quickly demand justice. However, the losers still have important power levers in the hands of authorities, justice and administration.
·Bonn, Germany
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Serbia's Gen Z takes back their country from strongman Vucic, demanding top police, intelligence, judiciary officials resign immediately
The students' win on Sunday marks the first time that a grass-root youth movement toppled a well-established political leader.
·New York, United States
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Serbia's Student List demands mass resignations across security services, police and courts
At its first press conference since winning Sunday's snap parliamentary election, the Student List called for the immediate resignation of a long list of top officials it accuses of serving Aleksandar Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party rather...
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