‘We changed the system’: how Serbian students ended Alexander Vučić’s 12 years in power

By Gavin Brent Sullivan, Professor of Social Psychology, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
Tereza Capelos, Professor of Political Psychology, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton

Serbia’s student-led political movement has secured a historic election victory. Preliminary results suggest the so-called Student List has won 141 of the 250 seats in parliament, with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party taking 104. The result brings the 12-year rule of Alexander Vučić to an end.

The Student List’s story is remarkable. It has no standalone leader and fielded candidates without political experience from across Serbian society. Stemming from student-led protests against the entrenched corruption…

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