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Serbia votes as ruling party faces student-led anti-corruption list

South China Morning Post25 October 2026, 08:53 UTCSerbia

Polls opened in Serbia on Sunday in what is set to be its most fiercely contested parliamentary election in more than 14 years, as a student-led movement seeks to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic. The snap vote is the culmination of nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people – a tragedy widely blamed on corruption. The disaster triggered some of Serbia’s largest protests since the fall of...

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