The former president said the student-led opposition was projected to win significantly more parliamentary seats than his party, but stressed that final results were not yet available<\/p>\n
Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has acknowledged that preliminary projections from Sunday\u2019s parliamentary elections point to a change of government, with the student-led protest movement expected to secure substantially more seats than his party.
\nSerbians voted on Sunday to elect a new parliament, with Vucic seeking the post of prime minister.
\n\u201cThere will be between 135 and 140 mandates, we have 105,\u201d Vucic said, referring to the projected number of parliamentary seats for the student-led list and his party, respectively.
\nHe stressed that the final results were not yet available. No official vote count had been released at the time of his remarks, and Vucic did not identify the source of his estimates, referring only to a stratified sample.
\nVucic also said that no other major parties appeared to have secured seats in parliament, apart from several minority parties.
\nThe election saw high voter turnout, with the State Election Commission reporting that 64.89% of eligible voters had cast their ballots by 18:00 GMT.
\nVucic resigned on September 27 following two years of protests, saying he wanted to participate in the election as an ordinary citizen. Anti-government demonstrations erupted after the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad in 2024, which killed 16 people and sparked allegations of corruption and failures in safety oversight.
\nVucic has accused foreign organizations of funding the protests, alleging on Thursday that actors abroad wanted to remove him from Serbia\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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