Vučić resigns after 15 months of protest across Serbia

Aleksandar Vučić formally resigned the Serbian presidency on 28 September, addressing supporters outside the presidential building in Belgrade and citing nine years of preserved peace and stability. Parliamentary speaker Ana Brnabić, a fellow Progressive Party member, assumes the interim presidency.

Under Serbia's constitution, a presidential election must be held within three months of resignation. Vučić had already announced in June his intention to stand as the Progressive Party's candidate for prime minister in snap parliamentary elections called for late October, meaning he retains a viable path back to the top of Serbian politics despite being constitutionally barred from a third presidential term.

Before leaving office, Vučić pardoned 49 individuals, among them 23 students, connected to what he described as the events of the past year and a half. The protests began after the Novi Sad railway station roof collapse in 2024 killed 16 people, and expanded through this year to include students, teachers, farmers and workers demanding accountability for alleged government corruption.