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Parliamentary election in Serbia: How the student movement wants to change Serbia
In Serbia, students received an absolute majority in the parliamentary election. But can a protest movement become a government? more...
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Hope is spreading in Serbia. Despite a feared neck-and-neck race between the student list and Aleksandar Vučić's Progressive Party, the students clearly won last Sunday's parliamentary election.
“The hooligans were already ready to cause intimidation in the event of a narrow election victory,” reports Andrej Ivanji from Belgrade. He lives and works in Serbia and has closely followed the student movement for the past two years.
But with such a clear victory, even Vučić had to admit defeat. “People were crying and laughing in each other's arms on the streets; no one expected that our young people would really be able to determine their own future,” says Ivanji. But what happens next after this landslide victory? How can a government emerge from a protest movement? Does Serbia's future lie in the EU again?
taz editor Anastasia Zejneli and taz correspondent Andrej Ivanji talk about this remotely.
This episode was recorded on 10/28/26 at 9:30am ET.
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