{"id":383387,"date":"2026-09-30T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-did-serbias-president-resign-to-run-for-prime-minister-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:39","slug":"why-did-serbias-president-resign-to-run-for-prime-minister-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-did-serbias-president-resign-to-run-for-prime-minister-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Serbia\u2019s president resign to run for prime minister | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/qJj3PDZbzEg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why did Serbia\u2019s president resign to run for prime minister | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qJj3PDZbzEg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has resigned seven months before his term was due to end but he isn&#8217;t leaving politics.<br \/>\nVucic is now campaigning ahead of Serbia&#8217;s October 25 parliamentary election and seeking a return to the post of prime minister. The vote comes after nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the deadly collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad in November 2024. The student movement has now entered electoral politics and is mounting a challenge to Vucic&#8217;s Serbian Progressive Party.<br \/>\nDW speaks to political scientist and journalist Nikola Burazer, Programme Director at the Centre for Contemporary Politics and Executive Editor of European Western Balkans, about why Vucic has stepped down, the rise of the student movement, the political impact of his final presidential pardons and the advantages his party brings into the election.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Vucic resigns to seek post of prime minister<br \/>\n00:19 Why students protested Vucic\u2019s government<br \/>\n00:35 Students step up their campaign ahead of election<br \/>\n00:50 How the student movement began<br \/>\n01:12 Why Vucic resigned in his own words<br \/>\n01:47 Interview with Serbian political scientist Nikola Burazer<br \/>\n02:15 Why is Vucic standing for the post of prime minister<br \/>\n04:56 Why students are a bigger challenge to Vucic than the opposition<br \/>\n06:58 Why Vucic issued dozens of pardons to allies and opposition<br \/>\n10:56 Is Vucic a type of Vladimir Putin in terms of political management?<\/p>\n<p>#serbia #europeanpolitics #vucic #russia <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baReddit: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/DWNews\/<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has resigned seven months before his term was due to end but he isn&#8217;t leaving politics. Vucic is now campaigning ahead of Serbia&#8217;s October 25 parliamentary election and seeking a return to the post of prime minister. The vote comes after nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-383387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why did Serbia\u2019s president resign to run for prime minister | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why did Serbia\u2019s president resign to run for prime minister | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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