In Republika Srpska, Don’t Assume All Serbs Support Vucic

On September 25, members of the public and students gathered in Petar Kocic Park in Banja Luka, the main city in Bosnia’s Serb-majority entity, to show solidarity with the student activists from Serbia whose planned visit to the city had been cancelled.

Local activist Ozren Perduv called on people to demonstrate to the Serbian students that the cancellation of their visit “was not done in our name”.

The students had been taking part in the “Student in Every Village” campaign ahead of Serbia’s parliamentary elections on October 25, in which their Student List represents the main challenge to Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS.

Serbia’s student movement grew out of demands for accountability after the fatal disaster at Novi Sad railway station in November 2024, and has gone from street protests to seeking seats in parliament.