Serbia election: Vucic faces tough challenge from student-backed movement
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The election represents a potential shift in Serbia's political landscape, pitting the long-standing populist leader against a student-led movement that has protested for nearly two years. The outcome will determine whether the current government retains control of the 250-member Parliament.
Serbians are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that is seen as a showdown between the Balkan country's populist leader Aleksandar Vucic and a movement of university students who led protests against him for almost two years. Though Serbia's 6.4 million voters get to choose from 18 parties hoping to enter the 250-member Parliament, the election has taken shaped as a referendum between Vucic's right-wing Serbian Progressive Party and the youth-backed Students' List. The main contenders are
Serbia is a Balkan country with a parliamentary system where the 250-member legislature is central to governance. Aleksandar Vucic is the populist leader of the right-wing Serbian Progressive Party, which has dominated recent politics.
- •The final vote count to see if the student-backed movement can unseat the ruling party.
- •Post-election negotiations to form a governing coalition if no single party secures a majority.