—❗️🗳🇷🇸/🇧🇦 Dodik congratulates Serbia’s Student List, thanks Vučić

➡️ SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has congratulated the Student List on its election victory and praised Serbian voters for exercising their democratic will.

➡️ He also thanked Aleksandar Vučić for years of cooperation and support for Republika Srpska, saying that ties between Serbia and the Bosnian Serb entity would remain close.

🔗 Dodik’s statement

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—❗️👑 / 🗳🇷🇸 Statement from Hereditary Prince Philip of Serbia:

Dear students, dear youth of Serbia,

From the bottom of my heart, I congratulate you on your great victory!

Through your courage and perseverance, you have awakened hope and shown that Serbia loves its children. As a Karađorđević, I look with particular pride upon a generation that preserves the freedom-loving spirit of our people.

May this victory mark the beginning of reconciliation, justice, and the restoration of trust. May it bring us closer together and remind us that we must build Serbia’s future together.

A great responsibility lies ahead of you. I wish you to bear it with honour, wisdom, and humility, in the service of all citizens.

Long live our Serbia! 🇷🇸

Crown Prince Filip

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—🗳🇷🇸 SERBIA ELECTS | Seat distribution in the National Assembly based on CRTA's preliminary results.

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—🗳🇷🇸 WATCH: Celebrations in Serbia's capital.

🔗 fiumi di parole

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—🗳🇷🇸 WATCH: Belgrade tonight.

🔗 Savski nasip

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—🗳🇷🇸 SERBIAN ELECTIONS | THANK YOU

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—❗️🇷🇸🤝🇷🇺 Student List representative rules out sanctions on Russia

➡️ Jovo Bakić told RT Balkan that Serbia’s incoming government would not impose sanctions on Moscow or change its approach to Russia, rejecting Aleksandar Vučić’s suggestion that the election winners would reverse their campaign pledge.

➡️ Bakić described Russia as an important historical partner.

🔗 Interview clip · Reuters

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—❗️🇷🇸 Serbia’s Student List pledges to stop arms exports to war zones

➡️ Leading candidates of the election-winning Student List have said a future government would end Serbian arms exports to active conflict zones, including sales through Western intermediaries that supply weapons to Ukraine.

➡️ The pledge has yet to become government policy: the Student List must first form a cabinet. Its impact on existing export contracts remains unclear.

🔗 Reuters · Dunav Intel

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—🇷🇸 WATCH: Following last night's victory, the Student List organized a victory party tonight to thank all its supporters and voters for helping it defeat former President Vučić.

🔗 Thomas van Linge

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#NEWS | 🇮🇱 🇨🇾 — Israel and Cyprus sign defence agreement: Jerusalem to supply Cypriot Navy with new offshore patrol vessel built by Israel Shipyards and equipped with Rafael naval systems.

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—🇷🇸/🇽🇰 NEW: The leader of the Students’ List, Ilija Srdanovic, tells Radio Free Europe that the new government will honor the Kosovo–Serbia agreements reached by former President Vucic, but will respect “the Constitution of Serbia when it comes to Kosovo.”

➡️ He cannot commit to the new government extraditing Milan Radoicic to Kosovo, who is responsible for the Banjska attack.

🔗 Xhemajl Rexha

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—🎾🇷🇸 WATCH: Novak Djokovic said he was “very happy” with the result and expressed his “deepest respect” for the students who challenged Aleksandar Vučić.

➡️ The tennis star praised their dignity and resilience under pressure, saying they had inspired pride among Serbs at home and abroad.

🔗 Djokovic’s remarks

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—🏛 🇷🇸 SERBIA ELECTS | Government formation process

➡️ Upon the adoption of the final election results by the Republic Electoral Commission, the new convocation of the National Assembly needs to be constituted within 30 days.

➡️ The first session of the new Assembly is called by the previous Speaker (in this case, Ana Brnabić) and is presided over by the oldest MP.

➡️ Once the Assembly is constituted, a new government needs to be elected within 90 days, or a new election needs to take place.

➡️ As there are already decisions on repeating the vote at some polling stations due to irregularities, the final results of the election will not be declared until at least next week. The repeat of the vote will not influence the overall result.

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—🇷🇸 WATCH: The leading name on Serbia’s winning election list, Ilija Srdanovic, tells Jutarnji he served as a soldier in the Yugoslav army in Vojvodina during the 1998- 99 war, or as he remembers it, during “NATO aggression on Serbia.”

🔗 Xhemajl Rexha

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