Long before the last ballots were cast on 25 October 2026, snap parliamentary elections in Serbia had history written all over them. Right-wing populist leader Aleksandar Vučić had dominated Serbian politics since 2014, first as prime minister, then as president. Instead of feeble opposition parties, an unlikely challenger stood against him: a student-led, grassroots movement with no traditional leaders.
Propelled by the mobilisation of broad swaths of Serbian society, the movement ran on (…)

Certain·es dirigeant·es de l'UE ont courtisé le régime autoritaire de Vučić ; elles et ils doivent désormais offrir à cette démocratie renaissante un avenir au sein de l'Union.
Alors que les bureaux de vote fermaient leurs portes dimanche soir dans toute la Serbie, les forces anti-émeutes se déployaient autour de la présidence à Belgrade. Nous étions nombreuses et nombreux à craindre le pire : une fraude électorale massive, un refus de reconnaître la défaite ou des actes de violence purs (…)

Some EU leaders courted the authoritarian Vučić regime – they must offer this reborn democracy a future within the union
Supporters of the student movement celebrate in the streets of central Belgrade. Photograph: Marko Dimic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
As polling stations closed across Serbia on Sunday evening, riot police were deploying around the presidency in Belgrade. Many of us feared the worst: massive electoral fraud, a refusal to recognise defeat or outright violence. After (…)