Representatives of Serbia's victorious Student List entered the National Assembly on Friday for consultations ahead of Tuesday's constitutive session. The talks mark the first step toward forming a government after the movement won 140 seats and ended Aleksandar Vučić's 14-year parliamentary majority.
The closed-door talks at the parliament building in Belgrade brought together delegates from all lists that won seats in the October 25 snap elections. Student List representatives Aleksandar Čupić and Mario Reljanović met with Ana Brnabić and Milenko Jovanov of Vučić's United Serbia list. The United Serbia list took 103 seats. Delegates from five minority parties holding the remaining seven seats also attended. These included the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians and the Albanian Coalition with two seats each.
The consultations focused on technical arrangements for the constitutive session scheduled for Tuesday, November 17. The session will confirm the mandates of the 250 deputies, elect the speaker and vice-presidents, and start the 90-day constitutional deadline for forming a new government. The talks covered seating plans, the agenda, and the distribution of vice-presidential posts and committee chairs. The session will be chaired by the oldest and youngest deputies. The Republican Election Commission allocated the mandates on November 6.
Tensions surfaced during the meeting. Milenko Jovanov said the opposition's position would be worsened and its rights reduced, and that new qualifications were being introduced for committee chairs. Ana Brnabić accused the Student List of "revolutionary terror" and said she had always prioritized the opposition for vice-presidential roles. The Student List responded that all votes would be public, committees would be allocated proportionally to parliamentary group size, and the consultations would not become political negotiations behind closed doors.
As the transition proceeds, the Student List has outlined plans to freeze arms trade with Israel and shut down a drone assembly facility in Belgrade's Makiš neighborhood built with Israeli partners. The movement also plans to replace compulsory military service with a six-month voluntary program. Vučić criticized the arms trade proposal on social media, accusing the student movement of seeking to dismantle Serbia's defense sector. Student List representative Filip Ubović described the situation in Israel and Palestine as "a stain on humanity" in a British podcast appearance.
