Serbia’s long-time president, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat in the election to a student-backed opposition movement. But among nationalist and EU-skeptic voices, the change in power is raising concerns about increased Western influence, sanctions against Russia, and concessions on the contentious Kosovo issue.
A student-backed opposition movement won the Serbian parliamentary election, according to preliminary projections from the polling firms Ipsos and CeSID. The movement received about 52 percent of the vote, compared with about 39 percent for the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which has dominated the country’s politics under President Aleksandar Vučić for 14 years.
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