Each month: national elections and referendums held, their results, and the ones coming up.
This issue covers Brazil's first-round presidential result, which put Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Lula before a 25 October runoff. It also has the Parti Québécois win in Quebec's provincial election and the AfD's speaker election in Saxony-Anhalt. The Brazil first-round report is the most worth reading, while the Quebec and Saxony-Anhalt items concern provincial or state votes.
The Parti Québécois is projected to form a minority government in Quebec's provincial election, with only 28% of the popular vote. Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon needs other parties' support for an independence referendum, and the Liberals, with 40 seats, say they won't collaborate on one. This is a provincial vote, not a national one.
A month after the AfD's win in Saxony-Anhalt's state election, where it fell three seats short of a majority, its candidate Tobias Rausch was elected parliament speaker with support from 9 MPs of other parties. It is the first time since World War Two that a far-right party has held the post. This is a state election, not a national one.
Flávio Bolsonaro heads into the runoff against Lula after a far-right sweep of congressional races. Four Bolsonaro family members were elected, including Jair Bolsonaro's wife, two of his sons and a brother.
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Laws, rules and official guidance on artificial intelligence: the EU AI Act, US federal and state action, the UK and China.
Resolutions adopted, vetoes cast and emergency meetings at the UN Security Council.
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