Serbia records highest turnout in decades as students challenge Vucic
Briefing by News4U · First published
Serbia’s snap parliamentary election closed Sunday with 64.9 percent turnout, the highest since 1992, pitting Vucic’s SNS against a student-backed list.
Serbia’s snap parliamentary election closed Sunday with 64.9 percent turnout, the highest since 1992, pitting Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party against a student-backed list after nearly two years of protests sparked by the Novi Sad canopy collapse that killed 16 people. [1] [2]
Observers recorded pressure on voters or staff at nearly a third of monitored stations and about 260 reports of irregularities, while police deployed around the election commission in Belgrade. [1] [2]
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