Serbia's victorious student-led movement has called for top figures in the police, intelligence and judiciary to stand down, days after ousting ex-president Aleksandar Vučić's party from power. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.

Standing in Pioneers' Park opposite parliament, newly elected MPs on the Student List demanded the immediate dismissal of all police officers who had broken the law, singling out the heads of the police, the BIA security agency and anti-terror unit.

It is not often a European country votes to fully reset its political system overnight, and Serbians have voted to hand the task to a group of novice politicians, made up of intellectuals, professors, artists, athletes and as many as 12 medical doctors and surgeons.

But the handover of power will take weeks, and the students' movement is concerned that evidence of possible wrongdoing could be destroyed in that time.

Just a few days ago, the park they were standing in on Thursday was a tent camp, filled with Vučić loyalists outside his office. Within hours of him admitting defeat on Sunday night, the camp was dismantled, and a team of volunteers moved in on Monday morning to clean up the mess.

"This is just the first wave of spring cleaning, the new ones are coming now - we are very excited but ready to do it too," said Marija Milovanović, 25, as she scrubbed a park bench.

The student movement emerged from protests following the fatal collapse of a railway station canopy that killed 16 people in November 2024, in Serbia's second largest town Novi Sad. Their desire was to bring those responsible to justice, and investigate widespread corruption claims blamed for one of the most tragic events in Serbia's modern history.

They have made some bold promises. Under their Student Plan, they promise to "halt the plunder, return stolen goods to the state budget, and invest directly in education and the economy".

The purge of Vučić loyalists has already begun at Serbia's state broadcaster RTS, where director Manja Grčić has stepped down. Newly elected MP Mirjana Nikolić said Serbian citizens had the right to truthful information and RTS had served the interests of the government for years.

The new MPs have also set their sights on replacing the head of Telekom Srbija, Vladimir Lučić.

Vučić loyalist Ana Brnabić, who is currently Serbia's acting president, has accused her opponents of choosing "revolutionary justice, not rule of law," and of aiming to shut down "all of the media they dislike".

But one of the next government's best-known MPs, Dejan Šoškić, argues that key reforms need to be in place fast. "In the first six months, I would like to see the media scene liberated, fighting against corruption on the way, the institutions operating as prescribed by laws and a lustration law introduced," said Šoškić, an economist who served as governor of the central bank between 2010 and 2012. By lustration, he means banning from public office members of the Vučić government or party apparatus who are found to have violated the rights of Serbians.

That kind of purge will take time, as all of Serbia's main pillars of authority have been held by Vučić and his party for so long, warns Strahinja Subotić of Belgrade-based European Policy Centre. Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".

All 141 successful candidates were chosen by students from universities across Serbia through a lengthy, secretive and carefully crafted process, and tasked with implementing the movement's plan for a complete rebuild of the country. That political agenda took months for a highly diverse group of students to agree to. Now it is up to the equally disparate team of successful candidates to put the plan into practice, rather than the students themselves.

Another prominent figure on the Student List, is Radomir Saičić, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Belgrade. "While the practical mechanisms will be developed on the go, the new MPs will stick to the students' 1200-page long and detailed plan," he told the BBC.