Serbia's student-led Student List won the parliamentary election
Serbia’s Student List won the Oct. 25 parliamentary elections with 53% of the vote and 140 of 250 seats, defeating the party of former president Aleksandar Vučić, which received about 39% and 104 seats, RTÉ reported. The movement now faces the challenge of governing, though its student members will not take parliamentary seats.
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Serbia’s student-led Student List won the Oct. 25 parliamentary election, defeating the coalition of Serbia’s authoritarian leader Aleksandar Vučić and securing a majority in the 250-seat parliament. The list received about 53% of the vote, according to RTÉ News and The Wall Street Journal; Vučić’s coalition won about 39%, RTÉ reported. The BBC reported that Vučić conceded defeat. Final results were due in coming days and were not expected to change the outcome, The Straits Times said. The students will not take seats themselves; they selected mostly political outsiders to represent them. The incoming government has yet to decide who will lead it, RTÉ reported.
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- The Times of India — The power of dissent: How protests put leaders to the test in Brazil and Serbia - The Times of India
- RTÉ News — What next for Serbia's election winners?
- BBC News — How the downfall of Serbia's Vučiċ mirrored that of Hungary's Orbán
- The Straits Times — Serbians mark railway disaster that led to rise of victorious student movement | The Straits Times
- Financial Times — Inside the leaderless movement set to govern Serbia
- The Wall Street Journal — Serbia’s Gen Z Students Toppled a Strongman. Now Comes the Hard Part. - WSJ
- nybooks.com — Serbia’s Graduation Day | Tim Judah | The New York Review of Books
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The Times of India, The New York Review of Books, RTÉ, BBC, the Straits Times, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal all report Serbia’s student movement’s election victory and its prospects for governing. The coverage is current, with the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal directly describing the movement as poised to govern and facing the challenges of doing so.