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Serbian riot police officers block a boulevard shortly before the closing of the polls in the parliamentary election in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026.
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Serbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government. It was a seismic political shift in the Balkan country where Vucic, who had been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and who denounced the student movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him, led for 14 years.
