Celebrations as Serbia waits to see how new leaders will govern

After two years of suffering, of battle for right, for freedom, for justice, under repression against students, against Serbian citizens, here we are now at the point to turn all this and to start building free and prospective country. I'm in the centre of the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, where the long-standing leader, Aleksandar Vučić, has stepped down tonight after an election victory against a student-led protest movement. As you can see behind me, There are thousands of people on the street, including in front of the parliament. These aren't scenes of anger, these are not scenes where there's tear gas, these are scenes of deep celebration and relief tonight on the streets of Belgrade, where for the past two years student-led protests have called for Vučić to step down and tonight he has. After two years of protests, the central issue in those protests was the collapse of a railway station roof in November 2024. That disaster killed 16 people. Since then, the protest movement has demanded accountability, they've demanded justice for the dead, and they have eventually demanded for Vučić to step down. That has happened tonight. That has been a surprise for many people. Few could actually really believe that he would actually do that, but the turnout was so strong today, there were lines snaking across Belgrade, people who were coming out to vote who'd never voted before, and that's why simply the result was too overwhelming to ignore, and Vučić simply had to step down. Everything will be better, there will be better wages, better working conditions, higher education, more corruption. I don't want there to be so much corruption, I mean, there will probably be, but I don't want there to be so much that it threatens other people, I don't know. We'll see what the plan is, what they say, but I think that it can't be worse than this and that it can only be better and that we just need to follow some normal principles and principles and that it will be 100% and certainly better. This represents a good luck story, a happy story for student protests in Europe. As you can see, people are really happy tonight. And there are protests across Europe, student protests across Europe, very, very angry, occasionally very violent, against the lack of prospects for students, a lack of funding. But here, the protests have turned out in the students' favour. Tonight, at last, they've won at the ballot box. And that is a huge cause for celebration for tens of thousands here tonight.