{"id":593970,"date":"2026-10-26T07:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=593970"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:34:06","slug":"vucic-loses-serbia-s-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vucic-loses-serbia-s-parliamentary-election","title":{"rendered":"Vu\u010di\u0107 Loses Serbia\u2019s Parliamentary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Serbian President <b>Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/b> is losing the parliamentary election. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rik.parlament.gov.rs\/542645\/rezultati\/\">Republic Electoral Commission<\/a>, with ballots counted from 90.5% of polling stations, his \u201cUnited Serbia\u201d coalition received 39.98% of the vote, while the \u201cStudent List\u201d, an opposition bloc formed out of the protest movement that emerged after the tragedy in Novi Sad, received 51.5%.<\/p>\n<p>No other party or coalition contesting the election managed to cross the 3% electoral threshold. As a result, only two political forces entered parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout in Serbia reached a record 68.58%.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 conceded defeat before the vote count was complete.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe do not yet have the final results, but\u2026 it is clear that we have lost this election. The \u2018Student List\u2019 has won: they will get between 135 and 140 seats, while we will have 105. No one else has entered parliament,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 served as Serbia\u2019s prime minister from 2014 to 2016. He became president in June 2017. In September this year, before his second term was due to end in May 2027, he stepped down, intending to win as leader of \u201cUnited Serbia\u201d and become prime minister. Vu\u010di\u0107 was not eligible to run for a third presidential term.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents of the European Council and the European Commission have already congratulated the \u201cStudent List\u201d on its victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCongratulations to the Student List on its victory in the parliamentary elections. We stand ready to support reforms on the rule of law, media freedom, the fight against corruption and strong democratic institutions, and to work together to advance Serbia\u2019s future in the European Union,\u201d<\/em> <b>Ursula von der Leyen<\/b> and <b>Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/b> wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 is losing the parliamentary election. According to the Republic Electoral Commission, with ballots counted from 90.5% of polling stations, his \u201cUnited Serbia\u201d coalition received 39.98% of the vote, while the \u201cStudent List\u201d, an opposition bloc formed out of the protest movement that emerged after the tragedy in Novi Sad, received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":593971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6adf027363467.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vu\u010di\u0107 Loses Serbia\u2019s Parliamentary Election"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593984,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593970\/revisions\/593984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}