Filipche After Vučić's Defeat: "Orbán Fell, Vučić Fell, We All Know Who's Next" - SDSM Celebrates Someone Else's Victory as Its Own Trailer

Aleksandar Vučić had barely conceded defeat when Venko Filipche, leader of the opposition SDSM, posted his congratulations. "Congratulations to the citizens of Serbia on a great, historic victory! As we announced, liberation from the criminal power structures follows. Orbán fell. Vučić fell. We all know who's next," Filipche wrote on social media.

According to preliminary results, the Student List won over 51 percent of the vote in Serbia's snap parliamentary election, and Vučić's list around 40 percent. The final results and the allocation of seats still have to be confirmed by the Republic Electoral Commission.

Filipche does not stop at Belgrade. "To the citizens of Macedonia I say that a fight awaits us, and not an easy one, because we are fighting against what remains of this criminal Balkan group," he writes. No names, but the message is clearly aimed at Macedonia's government - the cabinet of Hristijan Mickoski. Between the two messages there is also one conciliatory sentence: Filipche expects Serbia and Macedonia to build "the best possible relations, based on mutual respect and cooperation".

Someone else's win, a domestic campaign

Let's be precise: in Serbia the election was won by students who protested in the streets for months, not by an opposition party from a neighbouring country. The accusations about a "criminal Balkan group" are the political message of an opposition leader, not an established fact. And that is exactly the weak spot of this rhetoric - Serbia's change came from a movement built outside the old parties.

If SDSM really believes that "we all know who's next", the question is what it offers besides congratulations after other people's elections. Macedonia's regular parliamentary elections are not until 2028. Until then, will the opposition offer something of its own - or wait for the next government in the region to fall, so it can share it on Facebook?