Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led street protests.

Serbia’s vote for a new Parliament came just six months after voters in neighboring Hungary rejected their own populist nationalist leader, Viktor Orban, a close ally of Mr. Vucic.

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[–] 39 points 2 weeks ago

After seeing countless videos of his bastard cops rough up his citizenry, this sparks a lot of joy

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    No. The Canadian province of British Columbia just elected a conservative government for the first time in nearly a hundred years.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    BC did? I'll admit that I don't know a lot about Canadian politics, but isn't BC pretty progressive?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah this was hard news for me to hear. Neighboring Alberta are supposed to be the fuck-ups with the oil obsession, and BC are supposed to be the nature-loving progressives.

    But the BC premier Eby called an election early to cynically capitalize on Conservative Party disorganization and that apparently pissed everybody off on both sides to swing the election to the nutjobs.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    no, those who have been exposed to it for a long time, the youth there are rejecting it when they can, look what happened in Belarus when the tried Ukraine eschewed the yoke, paid the price and aren't being supported enough, so theres that danger as well. Those who haven't are too stupid to learn from the mistakes of others.

    South American is nearly all going MSAGA, if Brazil goes, Mexico is the last one standing. People voted for Trump, twice, Italy, France, UK, Germany, Australia are all swinging that way. Russia is lost.

    SE Asia is led by dictators in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, China and Laos, the only place pushing back is Myanmar, Bangladesh is balanced as is Sri Lanka. India has an authoritarian Hindu nationalist, Africa is a shit show from Kagame on down and on and on.

    Being cruel, stupid and greedy are now badges of honour.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    South American is nearly all going MSAGA, if Brazil goes, Mexico is the last one standing.

    Lula won, BTW.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Yes, very true. But the majority of state governments in Brazil (the National Congress) have flipped to conservative. So it's a big stalemate and congress will ensure that things get worse just to make Lula look bad (similar to what Republicans in the US do).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    What does this mean for Serbia? Will there be a new election to replace Vučić? or is he just a lame duck for the rest of his term?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    He doesn't have a term anymore at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Will he be replaced? or is the position just empty?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    There's currently a replacement from his own party as the PM, Vučić planned to be the presidential candidate (Putin-Medvedev style switch). IDK about the details (I'm not sure if the Serbian president is appointed by the parliament or by public voting), but basically he's out of the game. For a while, at least.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago