Serbia woke to a new political era on Monday after the student-backed Student List won Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, ending Aleksandar Vucic’s long dominance of the country’s politics. With almost 99% of votes counted, the State Election Commission put the students at 52.7% of the vote against 39.2% for Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party-led alliance. That gives the students 139 seats in the 250-seat National Assembly, against 97 for Vucic’s alliance, with the remainder held by minority parties. Vucic, who has dominated Serbian politics as prime minister or president since 2014, conceded late on Sunday, saying his party’s own sample showed the students winning 135 to 140 seats. The movement grew out of nearly two years of street protests after 16 people died when a railway station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad in 2024. European leaders welcomed the result, but questions remain over how a list of largely unknown candidates — professors, actors and farmers — will govern, and over Serbia’s future ties with both the European Union and Russia. Sources: Reuters, State Election Commission. Written in our own words for information only.