← Back to News
World

Student-backed election winners demand sweeping resignations in Serbia

Days after ousting Aleksandar Vučić's party from power, Student List MPs call for top figures to stand down.

BBC World•

Serbia's victorious Student List movement held their first press conference in a park opposite parliament

Serbia's victorious student-led movement has called for top figures in the police, intelligence and judiciary to stand down, days after ousting ex-president Aleksandar Vučić's party from power.

Standing in Pioneers' Park opposite parliament, newly elected MPs on the Student List demanded the immediate dismissal of all police officers who had broken the law, singling out the heads of the police, the BIA security agency and anti-terror unit.

By lustration, he means banning from public office members of the Vučić government or party apparatus who are found to have violated the rights of Serbians.