Brazil’s and Serbia’s elections may show the count is only a first test

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s runoff on Sunday, Oct. 25, with 51.79% of the vote, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court announced, the BBC and The Guardian reported; Flávio Bolsonaro had not conceded and said he would seek to annul the result. In Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in Sunday’s snap election to a student-led list, the outlets reported, though results were preliminary. Read together, they may show a count settling who won before it settles what comes next.

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