The Student List is prioritizing systemic personnel changes across Serbian law enforcement, targeting the heads of the criminal police, gendarmerie, anti-terrorism unit, and domestic intelligence. Born from protests over a railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people in Novi Sad, the group insists prosecutors must be liberated from political interference to finally secure convictions. However, the movement functions without a formal hierarchy, meaning student organizers will yield direct governing authority to the newly elected members of parliament. As student assemblies shift toward advisory functions, the emerging lawmakers face immediate pressure to rapidly form a functional go…
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Elected candidates must quickly assemble a reform-minded administration despite operating…: Elected candidates must quickly assemble a reform-minded administration despite operating without a formal party hierarchy or single overarching leader.
Student organizers will step back into advisory assemblies once their winning candidates…: Student organizers will step back into advisory assemblies once their winning candidates take their official seats as members of parliament.
Delivering legal accountability for state disasters and ending political meddling in the…: Delivering legal accountability for state disasters and ending political meddling in the judiciary remain the movement's primary metrics of success.
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In Belgrade’s Pioneers Park, just across from the national assembly, a small crowd craned their necks to listen. One woman held aloft a placard reading “Love prevailed for the people and Serbia”. With a bouquet of media microphones in front of them, members of the Student List, the direct democracy movement that won an improbable but decisive victory in Sunday’s election, gathered under the trees.
Having spent days bathing in the euphoria of their unexpected triumph, the candidates’ focus was now clear: the cleaning up of the rotten institutions that had increasingly blighted the lives of Serbs over the 14 years of government by the populist leader Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive party (SNS). They called for the dismissal of many senior law enforcement officials, among them the chiefs of the criminal police, the paramilitary gendarmerie and an anti-terrorism unit.
Student List candidate Svetlana Stanarević was applauded when she accused the officials of violating the law. She also called for the director of Serbia’s internal intelligence agency to resign, accusing him of running the organisation as “a party security…
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