Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dissolved parliament ahead of snap elections. [1] Reuters filed the Wednesday dissolve. [1] Balkan Insight filed the October 25 date. [2] A call is not a result. Print October 25. Do not print a winner.

Student protests are the background file, not Thursday's count. Leave a named campaign table to the edition that owns a named campaign table. A dissolve is still not a majority.

Print the date. Print not a result. Wednesday is not election night.

October 25 remains a date, not a majority on this Wednesday politics desk.
A dissolve is still not election night.
Student protests remain background, not a result.
Wednesday is not election night on this Brussels politics desk this morning.
Snap elections favor incumbents with machinery ready; October 25 is six weeks of sprint. Student protests set the backdrop, not the outcome. The date matters more than the dissolve.

Six-week sprints reward machinery over messages; Vucic's machine is oiled. Students supply the noise. Machinery supplies the votes.

Oiled machinery supplies the votes; Wednesday's date is October 25. The dissolve is not the outcome. Six weeks of sprint.

Parliament is dissolved and October 25 is the snap date Vucic set. A starting gun is not a majority already in hand. Campus noise is scenery, not a count. No winner prints on this Wednesday politics page.
Parliament is dissolved; October 25 is the snap date. A starting gun is not a majority. No winner prints on this Wednesday page.

A starting gun is not a majority. No winner prints on this Wednesday page. Campus noise is scenery, not a count.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels