Serbia's long-serving leader Vučić concedes election to student-led protest movement
Serbia's right-wing populist leader Vučić, who has led the country for 12 years, has said his party lost the vote. The election had been billed as a referendum on the country's future.
Serbia's long-serving leader Vučić has conceded that his party lost an election that had been billed as a referendum on the country's future. Vučić, a right-wing populist, has led Serbia for 12 years.
In his own words, it is "clear" that his party lost the vote. The winner was a student-led protest movement, which had been the main political challenge to the man in power.
The information available is very brief. It does not give the exact results, vote shares, the date of the election or the next steps for the country's leadership. It is therefore not yet known how the defeat will affect the formation of a government or Serbia's political direction.
The key fact is that the country's long-time leader has publicly acknowledged defeat.
