Friday, October 30, 2026

How Did the people of Serbia Remove President Vučić Without a Single Smashed Window?

I did not follow the events in Serbia closely, but it appears this was a momentous event!

"Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which had ruled Serbia for fourteen years, lost parliamentary elections on October 25 to the Student List movement. Student List succeeded in uniting both liberals and nationalists behind demands for good governance—and did not enjoy the backing of oligarchs, elite defectors, or the West. Indeed, these elections have provided one of the first examples of street protesters peacefully entering a state’s existing institutional framework instead of destroying it. Now Student List will need to show that a strong protest movement can govern effectively. ..."

How Did Serbia Remove Vučić Without a Single Smashed Window? | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace "Serbia’s electoral earthquake is an extremely rare example of an entire political system being defeated by street protesters who played by the rules."

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