What to Know as Serbia Votes for a New Parliament New York Times (Online) Andrew Higgins Voters in Serbia choose a new Parliament on Sunday, in an election that will test whether nearly two years of student-led protests against the political establishment reflect wider public opinion or just youthful anger out of sync with the majority. The vote pits the governing party of Aleksandar Vucic , Serbia's dominant political figure since 2012, against a slate of candidates selected by activists in the vanguard of the protests, which began in November 2024. The demonstrations have raged on and off since then, attracting hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country. Some polls indicate that Mr. Vucic's main opposition, a new political grouping called “Student List-Students Win,” could get as many votes as the governing party, or even more. Opinion polls in Serbia, however, are notoriously unreliable, heavily biased in favor of whoever commissions them. Still, the vote is being seen as Serbia's most competitive in years, a pivotal moment akin to the 2000 presidential election narrowly lost by Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's authoritarian nationalist leader during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Preliminary official results are expected to be released late Sunday or early Monday. The election comes just six months after voters in neighboring Hungary rejected their longtime leader Viktor Orban, a close ally of Mr. Vucic's who, like the Serbian leader, championed populist nationalist politics. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in . Want all of The Times? Subscribe .