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Serbia's student movement toppled a political giant. Can it now govern the country?

Straits Times26 October 2026, 16:35 UTCSerbia

BELGRADE, Oct 26 - By unseating longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic in Sunday's election, Serbia's student protest movement did what demonstrators in other European capitals can only dream of. Now, though, comes the gritty business of governing - something neither the students nor their handpicked candidates have any experience of.

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