Vučić, who resigned as president, opens his campaign to become prime minister

Aleksandar Vučić, who resigned as Serbia's president on 27 September rather than serve out his constitutionally final term, formally opened his campaign on October 4 to become prime minister instead if his party wins the October 25 snap parliamentary election. The bid follows nearly two years of sustained antigovernment protests, triggered by a November 2024 railway station canopy collapse in Novi Sad that killed 16 people, and now faces a student-led movement running its own electoral list. “Absent an intervention of some [foreign intelligence] service, we will defeat them,” Vučić said of the opposition, himself hinting at foreign interference without offering evidence.

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