For 18 months Pioneers’ Park in central Belgrade has been a political hotspot(热点地区). In early 2025 it was taken over(被接管、占领) by protesting students. Then forces loyal to Aleksandar Vucic, the country’s leader, fenced it off and set up an encampment(营地). On October 25th, the day of Serbia’s general election, a posse(一群、一队) of black-clad men assembled; they seemed to be pro-government thugs(暴徒). But they vanished after Mr Vucic unexpectedly announced that he had lost. By the next day the fences were down and the tents destroyed, as citizens symbolically reclaimed the park(重新夺回公园).
18个月来，贝尔格莱德市中心的先锋公园一直是政治热点。2025年初，抗议学生占领了这里。随后，效忠国家领导人亚历山大·武契奇的部队用围栏将其隔开，并搭建了营地。10月25日，塞尔维亚大选当天，一群身穿黑衣的男子集结起来；他们看上去像是亲政府的暴徒。但武契奇出人意料地宣布自己败选后，这些人便消失了。到第二天，围栏被推倒，帐篷被摧毁，市民以象征性的方式重新夺回了公园。
Taking back the country’s other institutions will be harder. Mr Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) ruled for 14 years, dominating the courts, the media and the economy.(武契奇及其领导的塞尔维亚进步党执政14年，掌控着法院、媒体和经济。) The scale of his defeat was unexpected. Opinion polls had shown the SNS running neck-and-neck(势均力敌) with the opposition Student List, a mostly leaderless(无领导人的) protest movement. Instead the SNS took just 39%. The students won 53%, giving them 141 MPs in the 250-seat parliament. They will try to restore(恢复) the rule of law(法治) to the state that Mr Vucic captured.
夺回国家其他机构将更加困难。武契奇及其领导的塞尔维亚进步党（SNS）执政14年，掌控着法院、媒体和经济。他败选的幅度出人意料。民调曾显示，SNS与反对派“学生名单”势均力敌，后者是一个基本没有领导人的抗议运动。结果SNS仅获得39%的选票。学生阵营赢得53%，在250个席位的议会中拿下141席。他们将努力让这个被武契奇俘获的国家恢复法治。
Like Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who was defeated by a broad popular movement in April, Mr Vucic was felled by outrage at corruption.(与匈牙利的欧尔班一样——后者在4月被一场广泛的民众运动击败——武契奇也因民众对腐败的愤怒而下台。) Membership in the SNS had become a requirement for career advancement in state-linked institutions and big businesses, a communist-style practice that led to cynicism(冷嘲热讽、愤世嫉俗) and resentment(怨恨). Mass demonstrations began in 2021 in protest against a proposed lithium mine(锂矿，2021年塞尔维亚抗议的导火索). In 2024 the collapse of a railway-station canopy(顶棚) that killed 16 people was blamed on shady(不光彩的、可疑的) contractors; Serbs came to feel(逐渐感到) that government corruption had left no one safe. That sparked the student movement, which started in universities, staged huge rallies throughout the country, and then met in faculty-based “plenums(全体会议)” to select candidates for the elections.
与匈牙利的欧尔班一样——后者在4月被一场广泛的民众运动击败——武契奇也因民众对腐败的愤怒而下台。加入进步党已成为在国家关联机构和大企业中获得职业晋升的必要条件，这种共产主义式的做法引发了冷嘲热讽和怨恨。大规模示威始于2021年，抗议一项拟建的锂矿。2024年，一座火车站顶棚坍塌，造成16人死亡，此事被归咎于不光彩的承包商；塞尔维亚人逐渐感到，政府腐败让没有人是安全的。这激发了学生运动，运动从大学开始，在全国各地举行大规模集会，然后在各院系举行“全体会议”，推选参加选举的候选人。