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Former Serbian President Aleksander Vucic has admitted electoral "defeat," stating that the Student List will win a majority in the new parliament. Speaking to members of his party, Vucic said that the Student List will have well over the 126 seats needed to govern, while his party, the SNS, will have only 105.
La vittoria della Lista degli Studenti è schiacciante secondo quanto emerge dalle proiezioni Ipsos/CeSid che le assegnano il 52% dei voti, mentre la lista di Vucic si ferma al 39,3%.
Si prevede che la Lista degli Studenti ottenga 138 seggi nel nuovo parlamento, ben oltre i 126 necessari per la maggioranza, contro i 104 di Vucic. Lo riporta l’emittente N1.
La Lista degli Studenti rappresentava la sfida più grande per il Partito Progressista Serbo (Sns) dell’ex presidente Vucic. Diversi importanti partiti di opposizione hanno scelto di non candidarsi esortando i propri sostenitori a dare il loro appoggio agli studenti.
Il voto anticipato di oggi è arrivato al culmine di quasi due anni di proteste studentesche scatenate dal crollo di una pensilina presso la stazione ferroviaria di Novi Sad nel 2024 che causò la morte di 16 persone. Una tragedia attribuita alla corruzione diffusa in Serbia e che portò alle più grandi proteste nazionali dalla caduta di Slobodan Milosevic nel 2000.
La maggior parte dei 250 candidati della lista studentesca provengono dall’università e dal mondo delle arti, con scarsa esperienza politica.
Il movimento ha un ampio programma, incentrato sull’impegno a combattere la corruzione. In campagna elettorale Vucic si è invece proposto come uno statista indispensabile, in bilico tra l’Unione Europea e la Russia. Sotto crescente pressione, ha indetto le elezioni anticipate citando “forti turbolenze sulla scena politica interna”
Vucic has ushered in a political transformation in Serbia, where he had dominated for 14 years after successfully presenting himself as a moderate, albeit nationalist and populist, following his radical stances in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His years in power, first as governor and then as president, were marked by corruption and commuting between Moscow and Brussels. In the 1990s, he was an ultranationalist ally of Milosevic, serving as his Information Minister in 1998. After Milosevic's fall, he joined the Serbian Radical Party, a far-right group led by Vojislav Seselj, convicted of crimes against humanity, like the wartime Bornean Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both sentenced to life in prison for genocide, which the party supported. Karadzic's funeral was held in Belgrade last month, attended by several of his party's ministers.
In 2008, Vucic made a turning point: he left the Radicals and co-founded the Serbian Progressive Party, a conservative and formally pro-European party that won the 2012 legislative elections and has dominated Serbian politics ever since. Vucic served as Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and then Prime Minister before becoming President in 2017, but never severed ties with his former far-right allies. Last August, Vucic was forced to call early elections due to ongoing protests against his party's government and corruption.
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