About 150,000 supporters of Serbia’s opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrade on Thursday, seeking to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in crunch parliamentary elections this weekend.

The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote.

Civil society groups have said the campaign has been marred by intimidation, arrests and misuse of public resources.

“I came to support the Student List because young people finally gave me hope that it is possible to live in a normal country,” Marija Nedeljkovic Radic, 47, said as she arrived for the students’ rally.

“Really, for the first time in my life, I believe that it is possible.”

Crowds streamed into Belgrade’s central Slavija Square from all directions, also filling several blocks of streets around the area.…