Sustained student-led protests since the November 2024 Novi Sad railway station collapse, which killed 16 people, have pressured Serbia’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party into calling snap parliamentary elections for October 25, 2026. President Aleksandar Vučić announced in late June that he would resign within weeks and that early elections would follow, shifting from the scheduled 2027 vote. As of early September, government sources indicate the cabinet will soon declare it cannot fulfill its mandate, prompting Vučić to dissolve the National Assembly in the coming days to trigger the required 45–60 day election window. This sequence reflects the constitutional mechanism for snap polls amid ongoing opposition demands and public mobilization. Traders monitoring dissolution timing focus on these procedural steps and any last-minute delays from coalition negotiations or institutional hurdles.