Longtime Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic was defeated by a student-led movement
Serbia’s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic has dominated politics in the Balkan country for 14 years. Then came the students. The former authoritarian president on Sunday the conceded defeat of his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party to a grassroots movement of university students who led protests against him for almost two years before unseating him in a historic change of government. The 56-year-old political veteran in the past had easily outplayed political opponents easily.
Ahead of Sunday’s ballot he had pulled a maneuver in the style of Russian President Vladimir Putin, He resigned the presidency and launched a fierce campaign
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