The Student List won Serbia's snap parliamentary elections on October 25, 2026, with 52.54% of the vote, according to the count released by the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) on October 26, leaving it positioned to assemble a majority on its own in a 250-seat parliament.

The result closes nearly two years of youth mobilizations that began after the collapse of a train station canopy in Novi Sad in 2024, where 16 people died, according to Al Jazeera. Those protests over accountability turned into an electoral campaign whose September platform placed the fight against corruption and organized crime among its priorities, alongside jobs, education and press freedom. For Mexico and Latin America, the case matters as a gauge of how a political turnover reshuffles the foreign agenda: the movement announced it will work to improve relations with neighboring countries and with the European community.

The Electoral Commission reported 39.29% for the United Serbia coalition, led by Aleksandar Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party, and turnout of 68.78%, the highest in more than 30 years, according to the data cited by Al Jazeera. The CeSID projection reported by The Guardian puts the Student List at 140 seats, above the 126 needed for a majority, against 103 for the outgoing bloc. Ilija Srdanovic, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Novi Sad, appears as the most likely candidate for prime minister. The constitutional calendar sets the formation of the new National Assembly within 30 days of the final result and the formation of a government within 90 days after that; Vučić resigned on September 27, so the presidential election must be held no later than December 27, with Ana Brnabić as interim president.

The observer mission of the OSCE, ODIHR and the European Parliament presents its preliminary report this October 26, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his country will support Serbia's European path, according to The Guardian. The next concrete appointment is the December presidential election: that is where the institutional realignment is completed, the same realignment that on October 26 redrew Serbia's parliamentary map.

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