Serb voters abroad face long trips in tight election
Serbian voters overseas are facing major hurdles in casting their ballots in a tight parliamentary election this weekend. The vote is a showdown between the populist strongman Aleksandar Vucic and a student movement behind nearly two years of protests. Critics say Vucic's government is doing all it can to discourage some 100,000 people who have registered to vote abroad and many of whom may support the students. Authorities have denied this.
But some polling stations in the U.S., for example, will be open partly overnight to match the Serbian time zone.
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