Serbia votes as students challenge Vucic in snap parliamentary election
Serbian voters head to the polls in an early parliamentary election where a student movement seeks to end Aleksandar Vucic's long rule, Reuters reports.
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Serbia holds snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, and a student protest movement is trying to unseat Aleksandar Vucic, who has governed for more than a decade as prime minister or president, Reuters reported. The vote comes after almost two years of demonstrations against alleged corruption and growing authoritarianism. The protests began after 16 people died when a railway station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad in 2024.
Polling stations open at 7 a.m. local time and close at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). Surveys disagree: an Ipsos poll shows Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party at 47% against 40% for the students, while other polls put the students ahead. Vucic has promised higher pensions and public sector salaries and keeps close ties with China and Russia, the main supplier of natural gas to Serbia.
why it matters
For markets, the main significance lies in the country's future policy course. A change of government could affect relations with Russia, the key gas supplier, and with the EU, which has criticised slow judicial and anti-corruption reforms. Investors in Serbian assets will likely read the result as a signal on reforms and energy policy.
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- Serbia votes as students seek to unseat Vucic in snap election — Reuters, 25 October 2026 at 01:00 UTC
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