Serbia Braces for Most Uncertain Elections in 14 Years

On Sunday, Serbia is bracing for what could be its most uncertain and high-stakes elections in 14 years, with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, facing a challenge that has emerged out of a two-year student-led protest movement.

Since 2012, Aleksandar Vucic and his party SNS have largely dominated the political and electoral landscape. This time, however, the election outcome is far less predictable, political analysts say, as the student movement has reshaped the opposition landscape and mobilised supporters well beyond the established parties.

“These are the first elections in a long time whose outcome is entirely uncertain,” Nebojsa Vladisavljevic, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, told BIRN.