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Serbia's leaderless Student List turns protest into a parliamentary majority

A South Korean report highlights the coalition's selection of experts as candidates and asks whether its success could influence European student protests.

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A coalition without a central party organization or a single leader has secured a parliamentary majority in Serbia, according to South Korea's YTN news channel. Its report focuses on how the Student List converted a student-led protest movement into an electoral force.

Crowds fill a Belgrade square to celebrate. One voter, Srdjan Mitić, says he traveled from Frankfurt to cast his ballot for young people and their future.

Reporter Kim Sun-jung says the Student List won more than half the seats, while the previously governing Serbian Progressive Party fell short of 100. Aleksandar Vučić acknowledges that his side lost and the student-backed list won, while noting that final results were still pending. The broadcaster describes the outcome as ending his twelve-year dominance, spanning his time as prime minister and president.

The movement grew from demonstrations following a deadly railway-station disaster in 2024, the report explains. Rather than organizing around a conventional party leader, the civic coalition selected experts from different fields to stand for parliament. Candidate Radomir Saičić thanks those who raised their voices and stood together.

The report's wider question is whether Serbia's result could encourage student protesters elsewhere, particularly in France. It presents that as a possible consequence, not an established effect. The closing analysis also places Vučić alongside Hungary's former prime minister Viktor Orbán as a pro-Russian, pro-Trump figure whose departure changes Europe's political landscape.