Serbia's student-led movement celebrates after longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat in a historic election. The result comes after a two-year peaceful protest movement that called for Vucic to step down.
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Anger at corruption and an unaccountable government turned Serbs decisively against their autocratic leader Aleksandar Vui ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Celebrations erupted in Serbia after Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in parliamentary elections, marking a political shift after over a decade in ...
"It is clear that we have lost these elections," Aleksandar Vucic said in a surprisingly early speech congratulating his opponents.
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 with virtually absolute power for 14 ...
Leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement.
Aleksandar Vucic, who denounced the oppositional student movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him, led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.
The snap elections came following nearly two years of student-driven demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism ...
The country's populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is "clear" his Serbian Progressive Party has lost.
Near-record turnout buoys grassroots party that grew out of two-year protest movement against graft and oppression ...