How students toppled Serbia’s strongman – podcast
Helen Pidd speaks to the Serbian-American journalist Ana Milosavljevic, the student activist Tara Blagojević and the MP-to-be Milica Jovanović about how the Student List managed to defeat Vučić’s increasingly authoritarian regime.
Key points
- A list of candidates, half of whom have PhDs, put forward by student activists whose protests have rocked the Balkan country for the past two years.
- On Sunday, record numbers of people went to the polls and voted to end the 12-year rule of Aleksandar Vučić.
- But can a leaderless movement govern a country?
After two years of protests, a student-led movement has defeated Serbia’s authoritarian leader, Aleksander Vučić, at the ballot box.
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