The certification closes the formal contest over the result but not the political one.
Serbia's Republic Electoral Commission has certified the results of the October 25 parliamentary elections, according to TASS. The certification gives formal shape to an outcome that redraws the country's political map: the Student List is set to receive 140 seats in the unicameral parliament, comfortably above the 126 needed to form a government.
Former President Aleksandar Vucic's United Serbia coalition will hold 103 seats. That places the bloc that has dominated Serbian politics in recent years in opposition, a reversal whose full consequences are not yet clear from the report. The figures are reported by TASS on the basis of the commission's certification; the source material does not give vote shares, turnout or the size of the new parliament.
Smaller parties and minority groupings also enter the chamber. The Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians and the Albanian Coalition will receive two seats each, while three seats go to parties representing Muslim Slavs, including the Social Democratic Party of Serbia led by Rasim Ljajic, the Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak and the Usame Zukorlic - Movement for Unification. The presence of these groups in a parliament where the Student List already holds a majority is unlikely to determine who governs, but it will shape the arithmetic of committee seats and the tone of minority representation.
The procedural timetable now matters. The new parliament is expected to convene within 30 days of certification, after which lawmakers have 90 days to form a government. Those windows set the pace for coalition talks and for the appointment of a prime minister and cabinet. Whether the Student List governs alone or brings in partners is not indicated in the report, and no candidate for prime minister is named.
The certification closes the formal contest over the result but not the political one. A parliament in which the Student List can govern without Vucic's coalition marks a break with the arrangement that has framed Serbian politics, and the coming weeks will test whether the majority holds together through the formation of a government. The report does not address the composition of the Student List, its policy programme, or how Vucic's coalition intends to conduct itself in opposition.
For now the confirmed facts are narrow: the commission has certified the October 25 vote, the seat allocations are as reported, and the constitutional clocks are running. The substance of what the new majority will do with its mandate, and how the region reads a Serbian government formed without Vucic's coalition at its centre, will become clearer only as the parliament convenes.
