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How Serbia's student protest movement has changed tactics

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Sanja Kljajic in Novi Sad
January 16, 2026

For over a year, students across Serbia took to the streets, protesting against corruption and negligence. Now, they have changed tack and are preparing for a snap election — whenever the president calls one.

After the collapse of a concrete canopy at the entrance to the railway station in Novi Sad in Serbia in November 2024, students and their supporters took to the streets to protest against corruption and negligence. 

These protests — which took the form of demonstrations and university blockades — went on for a year.

Late last year, the number and frequency of the protests decreased as the students decided that the time had come to change tactic.

Now, they are channeling their energy into preparing for the next parliamentary election — a date for which has yet to be fixed.

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