Parti Quebecois has won the provincial election, but fallen short of a majority. Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he will seek another referendum on independence but not while US President Donald Trump is in office.
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Parti Quebecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon vows a future referendum on independence from Canada.
NYTimes – World Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned to Caracas after nearly 10 months in exile, reportedly having fled the country on a speedboat in late 2025. Thousands of supporters lined the streets to welcome her. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she returned to press for new elections and challenge leaders who had sidelined her from democratic-transition negotiations.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term in a tight runoff against Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, official results showed. Lula took 51.7% of the vote to Bolsonaro's 48.2%. Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, has refused to accept the result and said he would seek to annul the vote. Lula now faces a divided country, an unfriendly Congress and strained public finances.
NYTimes – World Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a student-led opposition movement, the Student List, after nearly two years of protests against perceived corruption and authoritarianism. The snap election saw near-70% turnout, the highest since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Vucic, who had held virtually absolute power for 14 years, said, "It is clear that we have lost these elections."
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