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Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić resigned on Sunday to pursue a bid to become prime minister in upcoming snap parliamentary elections that will test his rule in the Balkan country, which was rattled by nearly two years of protests.

For the first time in nearly a decade, a Serbian media hosted a televised election debate with opposing politicians which drew significant public attention ahead of the 25 October parliamentary vote, in Serbia’s highly polarised media and tense society landscape. Equally for the first time, a top official from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party appeared…