Serbia votes in record numbers as student-led movement challenges government

Key points

• Serbian voters turned out in record numbers on Monday in a snap parliamentary election. Nearly 65 per cent of 6.4 million registered voters had cast ballots by 6:00 pm local time, the highest turnout in more than three decades.
• The vote follows nearly two years of student-led protests after a canopy collapse at Novi Sad railway station in 2024 killed 16 people. The Students' List, backed by the movement, poses the biggest challenge yet to Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party.
• Vucic has accused the students of plotting a foreign-funded coup.