Lula Stuns Bolsonaro; Serbia Student List Defeats Vucic; Bulgaria Elections (The Duran)

Lula has snatched a razor thin victory over Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil's presidential runoff, while Serbia's snap parliamentary elections handed the Student List a stunning win over Vucic's party after 14 years in power. In this episode we break down Bolsonaro's refusal to concede, what Lula's win means for BRICS, Ursula von der Leyen's double celebration, and whether Serbia's new rulers will turn on Russia and Kosovo as Bulgaria swings the opposite way. Is Brussels winning in Belgrade just as it starts losing Sofia?



Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Election Sunday: Brazil and Serbia surprise results
00:01:17 Lula beats Bolsonaro in a razor thin runoff
00:04:32 Polls kept open and Bolsonaro refuses to concede
00:06:54 Ursula congratulates Lula on multilateralism
00:08:25 Lula, Moscow and the BRICS Trojan horse problem
00:09:28 Why Putin and Xi are relieved Brazil stays in BRICS
00:12:43 Did Trump's backing cost Bolsonaro the election
00:15:54 Was BRICS expansion a mistake
00:18:41 Lula at 80 and the real Lula
00:19:53 Brazil bucks Latin America's shift right and the Milei factor
00:21:33 Serbia: the Student List defeats Vucic's party
00:23:11 Color revolution influence inside the Student List
00:25:13 Vucic's 14 years of cynical balancing
00:28:50 Russia sanctions, Kosovo and Bosnia: what comes next
00:35:20 Bulgaria turns against Brussels but the euro limits it

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, October 28, 2026.]