Vucic conceded defeat in Serbian elections: students get majority in parliament This material (information) is produced and distributed by Bell's foreign agent or relates to Bell's foreign agent's activities. 18+ The party of Aleksandar Vucic, who has been leading Serbia since 2012, lost in the early parliamentary elections. "Obviously we lost this election," said Vucic himself an hour and a half after the polls closed. According to his data, based on a stratified sample, the "Student List" will receive 135-140 seats, his "United Serbia" - about 105. Apart from them, only minority lists enter the parliament: Hungarians with three mandates and Albanians with one. For a majority in an assembly of 250 seats, 126 seats are needed. The observation organization CeSID, according to preliminary data, gives 52.1% to students, 39.3% to Vucic's list. Three days before the vote, themselves, which counts the elections together with CeSID, predicted the opposite: 47.4% for Vucic and 40% for students. The turnout by 19:00 was 67.6% - the highest since the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992, writes Reuters. Voting day was turbulent: observers were beaten with metal rods, journalists in Varanja were attacked for filming alleged vote-buying, and in Pansevo, masked men attacked the controllers of the "Student List", reports 021.rs. The election took place after almost two years of protests, which began with the collapse of a train station canopy in Novi Sad in 2024, in which 16 people were killed. Vucic resigned as president in September to run for prime minister again. At the top of the list of students is the cardiologist Ilya Sardanovich, but it is not clear who will become prime minister if he wins. Vucic remains one of the few leaders in Europe who does not.

Vucic conceded defeat in Serbian elections: students get majority in parliament This material (information) is produced and distributed by Bell's foreign agent or relates to Bell's foreign agent's activities. 18+ The party of Aleksandar Vucic, who has been leading Serbia since 2012, lost in the early parliamentary elections. "Obviously we lost this election," said Vucic himself an hour and a half after the polls closed. According to his data, based on a stratified sample, the "Student List" will receive 135-140 seats, his "United Serbia" - about 105. Apart from them, only minority lists enter the parliament: Hungarians with three mandates and Albanians with one. For a majority in an assembly of 250 seats, 126 seats are needed. The observation organization CeSID, according to preliminary data, gives 52.1% to students, 39.3% to Vucic's list. Three days before the vote, themselves, which counts the elections together with CeSID, predicted the opposite: 47.4% for Vucic and 40% for students. The turnout by 19:00 was 67.6% - the highest since the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992, writes Reuters. Voting day was turbulent: observers were beaten with metal rods, journalists in Varanja were attacked for filming alleged vote-buying, and in Pansevo, masked men attacked the controllers of the "Student List", reports 021.rs. The election took place after almost two years of protests, which began with the collapse of a train station canopy in Novi Sad in 2024, in which 16 people were killed. Vucic resigned as president in September to run for prime minister again. At the top of the list of students is the cardiologist Ilya Sardanovich, but it is not clear who will become prime minister if he wins. Vucic remains one of the few leaders in Europe who does not.