Students End Serbian Leader's Rule

Serbia’s student-backed list won Sunday’s election and ended the longtime leader’s rule, leaving its ideologically diverse members’ policy agenda unclear.

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The Guardian view on Serbia’s student revolution: from principled protest to power | Editorial

Two years after the Novi Sad tragedy gave birth to a youthful political movement, Sunday’s remarkable election has taken the country into a new era This weekend it will be two years since the collapse of a shoddily constructed train station canopy in Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad. The tragedy , killing 16 people, was swiftly attributed to state corruption and failures of regulation, sparking student-led protests across the country. Some of those demonstrators dared to imagine that they could become the catalyst for a democratic revolution. Continue reading. . .