Emotions ran high in Belgrade on Monday after a student-led movement defeated right-wing populist party Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia’s snap elections. A celebratory atmosphere took over the capital, with drivers honking their horns and passers-by raising three fingers: the number of the winning list and a Serbian salute. Many wore badges and other symbols of the student movement, while a large group of residents spent the day cleaning up a park between parliament and the presidency after Vucic loyalists, who had camped there for more than a year, fled. FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen speaks to researcher and political activist Aleksandar Matković. Keywords for this article