Why did Serbia’s president Vucic resign to run for prime minister | DW News

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has resigned seven months before his term was due to end but he isn't leaving politics.
Vucic is now campaigning ahead of Serbia's October 25 parliamentary election and seeking a return to the post of prime minister. The vote comes after nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the deadly collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad in November 2024. The student movement has now entered electoral politics and is mounting a challenge to Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party.
DW speaks to political scientist and journalist Nikola Burazer, Programme Director at the Centre for Contemporary Politics and Executive Editor of European Western Balkans, about why Vucic has stepped down, the rise of the student movement, the political impact of his final presidential pardons and the advantages his party brings into the election.

00:00 Vucic resigns to seek post of prime minister
00:19 Why students protested Vucic’s government
00:35 Students step up their campaign ahead of election
00:50 How the student movement began
01:12 Why Vucic resigned in his own words
01:47 Interview with Serbian political scientist Nikola Burazer
02:15 Why is Vucic standing for the post of prime minister
04:56 Why students are a bigger challenge to Vucic than the opposition
06:58 Why Vucic issued dozens of pardons to allies and opposition
10:56 Is Vucic a type of Vladimir Putin in terms of political management?

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