# Serbia celebrates historic election win for student-backed movement

https://mins.news/en/item/115157

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-26 00:58 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/26/serbia-celebrates-historic-election-win-for-student-backed-movement?traffic_source=rss

> Celebrations broke out across Belgrade after the student-backed movement scored a major victory over Aleksandar Vucic’s long-ruling party. The result follows nearly two years of protests sparked by a 2024 railway station collapse in Novi Sad that killed 16 people.

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