学生活动人士似乎将在本周日于投票箱中击败亚历山达尔·武契奇。欧盟本不该否定塞尔维亚的民主。历史或许不会在塞尔维亚重演，但开始出现相似之处。大约四分之一个世纪前，塞尔维亚公民大批投票，对时任贝尔格莱德强人斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇造成了历史性失败，他当时寻求连任总统。尽管他对媒体、司法和安全部队拥有广泛控制权，仍然输了。当他不愿离任时，塞尔维亚人成百上千地涌上街头，最终迫使他下台。
Student activists seem set to defeat Aleksandar Vučić at the ballot box this Sunday. The EU should never have written off Serbian democracy History may not be about to repeat itself in Serbia, but it is beginning to rhyme. Just over a quarter of a century ago, Serbian citizens turned out to vote in large numbers to inflict a historic defeat on the then strongman in Belgrade, Slobodan Milošević, who was seeking re-election as president. He lost despite his extensive control over the media, the judiciary and the security forces. When he was reluctant to leave office, Serbs poured on to the streets in their hundreds of thousands, finally forcing him to go.
本周日，新一代人可能在同样关键的选举中拥有决定性声音，这次是选举国家议会。当今的强人亚历山达尔·武契奇最近辞去总统职务，以参加选举，目的是将权力重心从总统职位转移到总理办公室。
On Sunday, a new generation could have the decisive voice in an equally fateful election, this time for the national parliament. Today’s strongman, Aleksandar Vučić, recently resigned as president to fight the election with the aim of swapping the locus of power from the presidency to the prime minister’s office.