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Lula makes history: inside the 30 October Guardian Weekly

Guardian Americas28 October 2026, 18:00 UTCSerbia

Brazil backs Lula for a fourth term. Plus: Student List triumphs in SerbiaGet the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home addressHow many grinning faces, jubilant crowds and celebrating politicians can you fit into a single issue of the Guardian Weekly? That’s not a question that often troubles us, but the spectacular triumph of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, winning a historic second-round vote after losing the first to rightwing opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, and the victory of the student-led campaign against autocrat Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia gave me a happy problem to solve this week. I

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