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Well, this election day brought one sensation - Aleksandar Vučić admitted defeat in the early parliamentary elections. No one seems to have seriously expected this. He, of course, took a risk with this election, but there was still reason to expect success. The reasons have yet to be determined. Vucic himself spoke of a "revolution" supported by Europe. Others, not without reason, postulate the "Urban scenario" - accumulated fatigue from the long rule of one person, whose personal characteristics and interests have too much influenced the politics of the country. It is clear that there is more than one reason, just as it is clear that a new era has opened in Serbia. Vučić's sophisticated and complex policy of maneuvering will probably be replaced by an attempt to sharply reorient the country towards the European Union. In this sense, the Hungarian case is quite indicative. And Russia should not expect anything good. True, society in Serbia is different from Hungarian. And there really is a lot of sympathy for Russia there. Whether this implies the possibility of mobilizing a new opposition - against a purely European move - will become clear soon enough. The EU will try to make the most of the defeat of the next "pro-Russian forces", but whether it will bring Serbia closer to the EU is a big question. Either way, if we try to generalize the European electoral processes, we can probably say that people in different countries are disappointed with the status quo and the establishment, whatever it is, even the opposite.

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Well, this election day brought one sensation - Aleksandar Vučić admitted defeat in the early parliamentary elections. No one seems to have seriously expected this. He, of course, took a risk with this election, but there was still reason to expect success. The reasons have yet to be determined. Vucic himself spoke of a "revolution" supported by Europe. Others, not without reason, postulate the "Urban scenario" - accumulated fatigue from the long rule of one person, whose personal characteristics and interests have too much influenced the politics of the country. It is clear that there is more than one reason, just as it is clear that a new era has opened in Serbia. Vučić's sophisticated and complex policy of maneuvering will probably be replaced by an attempt to sharply reorient the country towards the European Union. In this sense, the Hungarian case is quite indicative. And Russia should not expect anything good. True, society in Serbia is different from Hungarian. And there really is a lot of sympathy for Russia there. Whether this implies the possibility of mobilizing a new opposition - against a purely European move - will become clear soon enough. The EU will try to make the most of the defeat of the next "pro-Russian forces", but whether it will bring Serbia closer to the EU is a big question. Either way, if we try to generalize the European electoral processes, we can probably say that people in different countries are disappointed with the status quo and the establishment, whatever it is, even the opposite.

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