‘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 In 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. Having spent days bathing in the euphoria of their unexpected triumph , the candidates’ focus was now clear: the cleaning up of the rotten institutions that had increasingly blighted the lives of…