Serbia election: Student-led opposition ends Aleksandar Vucic's grip on power

Serbia's longtime leader, strongman Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat to a student-led movement in the country's parliamentary elections on Sunday in what represents a seismic political shift. High turnout and growing tension marked a hotly contested parliamentary election that was a showdown between the Balkan country’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic and a diverse movement of university students who have led protests against him for almost two years. The result brings an end to more than a decade of rule by long-time leader and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Pre-election polls had suggested a tight race between the SNS and the newly formed, youth-backed Students' List, which emerged from a mass student protest movement.