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BELGRADE, October 25, 2026 – Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election, BRICS News reported, after preliminary results showed a student-led movement born out of two years of anti-government protests on course to win a majority in parliament.
BRICS News reported the development in a post on X on Sunday, stating: “Serbian President Vučić concedes defeat in snap election.” The post was accompanied by a photograph of Vučić. The Guardian reported that Vučić resigned the presidency last month to call the snap vote.
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Speaking at the Belgrade headquarters of his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) after polls closed, Vučić said: “We still do not have final results. Based on a stratified sample, it is clear that we have lost these elections.” He said the Student List would have “between 135 and 140 seats, while we will have around 105” in the 250-seat National Assembly, Euronews and DW reported.
Vučić added that no other list had entered parliament apart from minority parties, saying the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians had won three seats and an Albanian list one seat, while the SDA had also possibly secured a seat. He said his party had received about 1.72 million votes, compared with 2.2 million for the Student List, Euronews reported.
Election monitor CRTA said the Student List had won 51.47 per cent of the vote, against 40.42 per cent for the “Aleksandar Vučić – United Serbia” list, DW reported. Pollsters CeSID and Ipsos put turnout at 67.6 per cent by 7pm local time, the highest since 1992, according to The Guardian. The BBC reported celebrations on the streets of Belgrade, with cars honking and students chanting “victory”.
The election traces back to November 2024, when a concrete canopy collapsed at the railway station in Novi Sad, killing 16 people. The disaster sparked student-led protests that grew into a broad anti-government movement, as evidence suggested that poor construction, fraud and corruption were to blame.
The students fielded a slate of 250 candidates, ranging from academics to athletes and farmers, campaigning under the slogan “Serbia or Mafia?”. Dejan Bodiroga, a candidate on the list and president of EuroLeague Basketball, said as he voted in Belgrade that Serbia was “fighting for freedom and for the return of a country that has been hijacked”, The Guardian reported. Vučić had repeatedly accused the students of serving foreign powers, a charge they rejected.
Monitors raised concerns over the conduct of the vote. CRTA’s Raša Nedeljkov said “a large number of irregularities continue to be recorded”, including the photographing of ballots, attempted vote-buying and carousel voting, while violent incidents outside polling stations were becoming more frequent, The Guardian reported.
The result ends more than a decade of SNS dominance. The SNS has held power since 2012, with Vučić serving as prime minister before becoming president in 2017. Euronews noted that the incoming government will face decisions on the economy, relations with the European Union, Kosovo, energy and Serbia’s ties with Russia and China. During the campaign, Vučić presented himself as a leader able to walk a diplomatic tightrope between the West, Russia and China, The Guardian reported.
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