Polls officially close after Brazilian supreme court ordered the extension Sunday as Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva await results Live second round results The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday. Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out. Continue reading...
Brazil runoff live updates: ballot count resumes after two-hour voting extension
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Follow live updates Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast Steggall calls for civility and respect Independent MP Zali Steggall has called for more respect in times of disagreement, telling ABC that leadership and words matter. We absolutely need to make sure there is more civility and respect. Social media is a platform where they can send abuse and threats through direct messages, call my electorate office, or send pretty revolting stuff It’s just quite shocking how disconnected from manners and reality sometimes people get when they launch into their diatribes and make threats. There’s been a lot of money and a lot of effort and a lot of thought going into security here at Parliament House. I think the vulnerability is actually when we’re out doing our job in the community, and that’s probably where we need to put the focus. Continue reading...
Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election
Vučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government. Vučić pointed to preliminary results that suggested voters had overwhelmingly backed the students, potentially giving them a majority in the country’s 250-seat parliament. Continue reading...
‘Door to EU is open’ new Serbian government told after Vučić concedes election – Europe live as it happened
Student List movement projected to have 141 seats in the new parliament, well clear of the 126 required for majority Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat in fiercely contested parliamentary election The latest turnout projection by Ipsos/Cesid suggests a turnout of 60.8% by 5pm local time (4pm UK), with three hours still to go until the polling stations close. That’s more than 13 percentage points higher than in 2023, and would be the highest turnout since mid-2000s. “ What hasn’t motivated me? There isn’t a single reason I could give that would keep me from showing up at my polling station at 6:20 in the morning.” Continue reading...
Ballon d’Or 2026: Can Barcelona phenom Lamine Yamal become youngest winner?
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
Nobel peace prize winner’s return after almost a year in exile is unlikely to please interim president Delcy Rodríguez The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has announced she has returned to Venezuela almost a year after she left the country to receive the Nobel peace prize. “I’m here. With you,” she wrote on X on Sunday lunchtime. Continue reading...
Thousands protest in Prague against public media funding reforms
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