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Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election

Serbia's longtime leader concedes defeat to a student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 3 sources•1 min read•Updated October 26, 2026, 7:49 AM UTC

Serbia's longtime leader concedes defeat to a student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections.

Vučić pointed to preliminary results that suggested voters had overwhelmingly backed the students, potentially giving them a majority in the country’s 250-seat parliament.

In just under two years the students have succeeded in tearing up 14 years of political dominance under Aleksandar Vučić.

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