Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's longtime leader, accepted his defeat in early parliamentary elections against a student-led protest movement.
This student movement was formed less than two years ago in response to a train station disaster that was believed to be caused by corruption and inefficiency; However, he participated in these elections by presenting candidates from different strata of Serbian society.
Vucic, the leader of the populist right, admitted defeat at the end of Sunday, saying: "Obviously we lost this election." He cited preliminary statistics showing that students received 2.2 million votes and his party received 1.72 million votes.
Vucic, who served two presidential terms and could not run for a third term, led the "Progressive Party of Serbia" and aspires to return to the position of prime minister; The position he left in 2017. After two years of public protests that began after the Novi Sad train station canopy collapsed and killed 16 people, he ordered elections.