The 2026 Serbian parliamentary elections resulted in the ousting of Aleksandar Vučić by a student-led movement.

It's remarkable how a relatively small if tragic incident has had such major reverberations: "The high-stakes election in the EU-candidate country traces back to November 2024, when a concrete canopy collapsed at the Novi Sad railway station, killing 16 people. The tragedy set off protests among students, snowballing into a broad anti-government movement as evidence suggested that slipshod construction, fraud and corruption were to blame for the roof collapse." Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/25/serbian-leader-aleksandar-vucic-concedes-defeat-in-fiercely-contested-parliamentary-election #Serbia

“Preliminary figures provided by Serbia's election commission indicated a record high turnout, which commentators had suggested would favour the student movement. “Vučić had called the snap elections after two years of protests triggered by the 2024 collapse of a train station canopy in the city of Novi Sad, which killed 16 and was seen as emblematic of corruption and negligence in Serbia.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5yn3xlprpmo

Serbia’s student movement ousts nationalist leader Aleksandar Vučić in parliamentary elections. The victory in the snap vote comes after nearly two years of anti-government protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people. The disaster was widely blamed on corruption and triggered some of Serbia’s largest protests since the fall of strongman Slobodan Milošević in 2000. https://mediafaro.org/article/20261026-serbias-student-movement-ousts-nationalist-leader-aleksandar-vucic-in-parliamentary-elections?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward #Serbia #Vucic #Elections #Politics #Corruption