Serbia’s protesting students mount serious challenge to Vučić’s power – POLITICO

Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić has won every election he has contested since 2012, but on Sunday, a student-led movement stands a real chance of edging out his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the country’s parliamentary elections.

A poll published Tuesday by New Serbian Political Thought, an independent pollster, put the Student List narrowly ahead of the Progressive Party, at 44.5% to Vučić’s 42.7% — the first time an opposition list has led a national poll ahead of an election in over a decade.

“Gen Z and students are rising up and fighting for a government that will invest in their futures instead of actively undermining us before we properly start our adult lives,” Kosta Golubović, a 21-year-old law student at the University of Novi Sad, told POLITICO.