Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat to student led movement in parliamentary election

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic conceded ​defeat to the student-led protest ‌movement in parliamentary elections on Sunday, Reuters reported.

"We still do not have final results, ​on the basis of a ​sample ... it is clear that we ⁠have lost these elections, the ​Student List has won, they will ​have between 135 and 140 seats and we will have 105, no one ​else has entered parliament," Vucic ​said.

The snap elections, called by Vucic in September, ‌came ⁠after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism triggered by the ​deaths of ​16 ⁠people when a train station canopy collapsed in the ​city of Novi Sad in ​2024.

The ⁠students have since gained widespread support to become the greatest threat ⁠to ​Vucic since he ​first became prime minister in 2014 and then ​president in 2017.