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Protest Can Become Political Power: Serbia’s Student List Wins a Parliamentary Majority

Reported by Balkan Insight

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Serbia’s student-founded opposition list has won an outright parliamentary majority, according to the latest reported election figures, ending 14 years of Serbian Progressive Party rule. Independent monitors project that it could form a government without coalition partners, although counting remains incomplete and its governing performance is unproven.

The result demonstrates that student-led civic participation can translate into parliamentary power, while leaving the movement’s ability to deliver in government still to be tested.

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