Students March Into Belgrade as Vucic Holds Rally in Southern Serbia Ahead of Vote
The student-backed list says 250 candidates are running on a platform of anti-corruption reforms and media freedom after nearly two years of protests.
- Thousands of residents welcomed marching students to Belgrade on Wednesday, as the youth movement converges on the capital ahead of Sunday's tense parliamentary election challenging populist leader Aleksandar Vučić.
- Student demonstrations first erupted after a train station tragedy in northern Serbia killed 16 people. The youth movement demanded accountability for the deaths, blaming alleged corruption-fueled negligence during renovation work.
- President Aleksandar Vučić held a rally in the southern city of Niš, expressing confidence his Serbian Progressive Party will win Sunday's ballot. He reiterated accusations that students and professors worked under instructions from abroad to "breakdown" the country.
- A report published Wednesday by the Serbian Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability cited "narrowing of freedoms and deepening of inequality" among voters. It noted over 100 violent incidents and major discrepancies in mainstream media coverage favoring the government.
- Authorities detained six people on Wednesday suspected of planning unrest on election day. Police have made similar arrests ahead of major protests in the past, a tactic government critics claim is aimed at intimidating protest-goers.
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After two years of protests in Serbia, the student movement is attempting to turn popular discontent into an electoral upset, using the tragedy in Novi Sad and corruption as a starting point. The post Serbia: After two years of protests, students in the battle for power appeared first on in.gr.
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Serbia votes this Sunday in crucial elections. For the first time, the students who have been mobilized in the streets for almost two years come to the polls with a list of their own to defeat Aleksandar Vui, leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and strong man of the country for more than a decade. They leave oki, economist, professor of the University of Belgrade and former governor of the National Bank of Serbia is one of the 250 cand…
A massive student march has converged in Belgrade marking the end of the electoral campaign for the early parliamentary elections planned for this weekend. Young people, coming from different cities of the country, have mobilized for the final event of an entirely student electoral list that launches a direct challenge to the power blockade of President Aleksandar Vu?i?. The movement, active for almost two years, calls for structural reforms and…
Serbia: Student protesters flood Belgrade ahead of snap elections
Cheers, music and waving flags greeted students arriving in Belgrade from across Serbia on Wednesday, as thousands gathered ahead of a final rally before this weekend's snap parliamentary elections.
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Several columns of students arrive in capital after days of walking
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