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Serbia's Vucic Concedes Defeat as Student-Led Movement Wins

Vucic said the Students' List would take roughly 135 to 140 of 250 seats, while blaming independent media and an American deep state for the loss.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSerbian leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat Sunday to a student-led movement, ending fourteen years in which he dominated the country's politics.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOkay, I'm still thinking about that phone at the bottom of the pool. But Serbia, Gloria. Did he really just say it out loud?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe did. He told supporters, quote, the Students' List has won.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe said his party took around one point seven million votes and the students around two point two million, and that they would hold between one hundred thirty-five and one hundred forty of the two hundred fifty seats.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEuronews has it at fifty-two percent for the students against thirty-two point three for his party. Those don't match his numbers, do they?

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThey do not, and the discrepancy is noted.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWhat is also noted is that he blamed independent media and what he called an American deep state for the loss.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBoth at once?

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorBoth at once.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSix point four million voters were eligible, and Al Jazeera says turnout was the highest in decades, and he is the one who needs an explanation.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIn Belgrade, CBS says crowds filled the streets honking horns and chanting, Aleksandar is gone. That's a pretty clear review.

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd he resigned the presidency last month to run for prime minister. A rare case of leaving a job to apply for a promotion and being turned down by the entire country.

  13. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorVerdict, Mr. Darnell: a landslide, by any count but his own.

  14. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo he quit his job for a better job, lost, and now he has neither.

  15. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe does have a very detailed theory about Americans.

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  6. Vučić concedes in Serbia; Trump and Obama trade jabs · The Washington Times
  7. Serbia's Vucic Concedes Defeat as Student-Led Movement Wins (this story)
  8. Serbia's Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement · Al Jazeera

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