‘Swift justice’: Student List supporters focus on cleaning up Serbia’s rotten institutions
The Student List, a grassroots movement in Serbia, has secured an unexpected election victory and is now focusing on purging corrupt officials from state institutions. The group aims to reform law enforcement and intelligence agencies that they claim have been politicized.
Why it matters
This represents a significant shift in Serbian politics, as a direct democracy movement attempts to dismantle long-standing institutional corruption.
Representatives of the Student List at a press conference in Pioneers Park in Belgrade on Thursday. A government has yet to be formed. Representatives of the Student List at a press conference in Pioneers Park in Belgrade on Thursday. A government has yet to be formed. Serbia ‘Swift justice’: Student List supporters focus on cleaning up Serbia’s rotten institutions After improbable election victory, the unconventional grassroots movement says it will prioritise dismissal of corrupt officials
Prefer the Guardian on Google I n Belgrade’s Pioneers Park, just across from the national assembly, a small crowd craned their necks to listen. One woman held aloft a placard reading “Love prevailed for the people and Serbia”. With a bouquet of media microphones in front of them, members of the Student List, the direct democracy movement that won an improbable but decisive victory in Sunday’s election, gathered under the trees.
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