Key facts
- RTS Director Manja Grcic resigned after the Student List's election victory.
- Grcic stated her stay in office was perceived by some as an obstacle to change.
- The Student List won 140 seats in the 250-seat parliament.
- Television stations with national reach gave three-quarters of the time allotted to politicians to government representatives.
The director of Serbian state television RTS, Manja Grcic, resigned late Wednesday following a landslide election victory by the Student List protest movement over longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic. Grcic stated her continued presence in office was perceived by some as an obstacle to change and called for a lawful handover of duties. The election results are not yet finalized, but Serbia's electoral commission reported that the Student List secured 140 seats in the country's 250-seat parliament, with Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party on 104. Television stations with national reach reportedly gave three-quarters of the time allotted to politicians to government representatives, and the Student List was portrayed negatively more than 80% of the time it was discussed.