Serbia’s political landscape has been upended. On Sunday, record numbers of people went to the polls and voted to end the ۱۲-year rule of Aleksandar Vučić. And who did they back instead? A list of candidates, half of whom have PhDs, put forward by student activists whose protests have rocked the Balkan country for the past two years.
Helen Pidd speaks to the Serbian-American journalist Ana Milosavljevic, the student activist Tara Blagojević and the MP-to-be Milica Jovanović about how the Student List managed to defeat Vučić’s increasingly authoritarian regime.
With victory secured, the hard part begins: how does a leaderless movement choose a prime minister and run a country?
