By Presented by Helen Pidd with Ana Milosavljevic, Milica Jovanović and Tara Blagojević; produced by Tom Glasser, Hanna Adan, Claudia Efemini and Brian McNamara; executive producer Eli Block · Via The Guardian · Published by Everything Blog
Massive voter participation during Sunday's election dislodged Aleksandar Vučić following a 12-year stretch of increasingly authoritarian governance. The electorate rallied behind an alternative slate forwarded by student demonstrators, who had organized sustained protests across the country for two years. Half of the candidates on this student-promoted political ticket notably possess doctoral degrees. Now, prominent figures from the movement must navigate the complicated process of governing Serbia and appointing its next prime minister.
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Student organizers and figures like Tara Blagojević and Milica Jovanović successfully tra…: Student organizers and figures like Tara Blagojević and Milica Jovanović successfully translated years of public street demonstrations into an electoral victory.
Aleksandar Vučić's defeat marks the sudden termination of an authoritarian regime that go…: Aleksandar Vučić's defeat marks the sudden termination of an authoritarian regime that governed Serbia for over a decade.
The leaderless movement faces the immediate operational challenge of establishing a funct…: The leaderless movement faces the immediate operational challenge of establishing a functional government and designating a prime minister.
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Serbia’s political landscape has been upended. On Sunday, record numbers of people went to the polls and voted to end the 12-year rule of Aleksandar Vučić. And who did they back instead? A list of candidates, half of whom have PhDs, put forward by student activists whose protests have rocked the Balkan country for the past two years.
Helen Pidd speaks to the Serbian-American journalist Ana Milosavljevic, the student activist Tara Blagojević and the MP-to-be Milica Jovanović about how the Student List managed to defeat Vučić’s increasingly authoritarian regime.
With victory secured, the hard part begins: how does a leaderless movement choose a prime minister and run a country?
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