Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat in historic snap election with record turnout

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to a student-led protest movement ‌in an historic election on Sunday that ends his ⁠long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. The streets of Belgrade ‌erupted in celebration after Vucic's announcement, with cars honking and students ⁠shouting "victory" and "he's done". The snap elections came after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism triggered by the deaths of 16 people when a train station canopy collapsed in the ‌city of Novi Sad in 2024. Read moreSerbia holds parliamentary election as populist leader Vucic faces student movement "Dear Serbia, tonight the voice of the people is being heard," said Radomir Sajcic, a professor at Belgrade University speaking on behalf of the ‌students at their headquarters. "Tonight we celebrate victory, tomorrow we build the future." Turnout in the election was nearly 70%, the highest since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Lines snaked from polling stations in cities and towns across Serbia on Sunday, in a sign of widespread desire for change. "It is clear that we have lost these elections, the Student L...