Last Sunday in Serbia, Alexander Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) lost to the Student List, a popular protest movement of students and academics that first formed two years ago in the aftermath of a roof collapse at a train station in the city of Novi Sad. Vucic and SNS have ruled Serbia in one way or another since 2012. Vucic initially served as First Deputy Prime Minister, then as Prime Minister, then as President. He had recently resigned the presidency to run once again for Prime Minister in a snap election, but his defeat and quick concession last Sunday finally broke the hold on power of the man and his party, despite their use of familiar tactics to give themselves numerous unfair electoral advantages. On the same day in Brazil, Flavio Bolsonaro'the son of the former right-populist president Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting to overturn the results of the previous presidential election, which he lost'failed to...
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