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Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks amid protests

Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Saturday that he will resign his post within weeks, paving the way for early presidential and parliamentary elections following 18 months of student-led anti-corruption protests that swept the country.

The protests erupted after a fatal awning collapse at a Novi Sad railway station killed 16 people in 2024, marking the largest rallies since Slobodan Milosevic's overthrow in 2000.

This decision signals a major shift in Serbia's political landscape as the ruling party faces public pressure to address corruption and governance failures.

  • The 2024 awning collapse in Novi Sad was the deadliest infrastructure failure in Serbia since the 1990s wars.
  • Slobodan Milosevic was ousted in 2000 after mass protests known as the Bulldozer Revolution, the last major youth-led uprising in Serbia before 2024.
  • Vucic has maintained Serbia's 'traditional partnership' with Moscow and Beijing despite Western pressure to align more closely with the EU.
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