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Nota bene: Don't jump on every interview statement made by someone from the Student List. There are some right-wing and left-wing populists on the list, as well as the occasional eco-pseudoscience weirdo, so there are bound to be statements ranging from simply stupid to dangerous, potentially raising the risk of sanctions. The movement is contradictory, and its boundaries are not clearly defined. For a while, the Student List will be preoccupied with domestic issues anyway. There are so many cadres from the previous regime to purge, and the priority is to get the institutions up and running. Foreign policy will be on hold.

🗣️ Novak Djokovic says he's very happy the students defeated Vucic in the Serbian elections: Djokovic: "I'm very happy about this. My deepest respect to the students who fought and shown dignity and resilience. I have lots of admiration for what they've done. They managed to create a sense of pride in Serbia and in the world. The victory is secure and we all now have hopes that our country will be prosperous and enjoying the future that is coming." x.com/nolevolent/status/2115…

Exit polls: Netanyahu (50 seats) can't form a government. The opposition (52-53) can, if it gets over its racism and forms a government supported by Arab parties that gained 17-18 seats. Otherwise the most likely scenario is another election and Bibi remaining a caretaker PM.

Initial results from Israel show clearly that the opposition bloc is a few seats ahead of Netayanu's. The two Arab-majority lists will get 17 or 18 seats together and hold balance of power. Israeli liberals now face a clear choice: work with Arabs if you want to oust Bibi.

🚨🚨🚨Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition is projected to lose its parliamentary majority, but his opponent Gadi Eisenkot's bloc is short of 61 seats, according to Israeli exit polls. My report on @axios axios.com/2026/10/27/netanya…

🇮🇱 ISRAEL ELECTION EXIT POLLS 🇮🇱 Channel 11 Likud (Netanyahu): 25 Yashar (Eisenkot): 21 Beyachad (Bennett-Lapid): 14 Netanyahu bloc: 50 Change bloc: 53 Arab-majority parties: 17 Channel 12 Likud (Netanyahu): 24 Yashar (Eisenkot): 22 Beyachad (Bennett-Lapid): 12 Netanyahu bloc: 50 Change bloc: 52 Arab-majority parties: 18 Channel 13 Likud (Netanyahu): 25 Yashar (Eisenkot): 23 Beyachad (Bennett-Lapid): 14 Netanyahu bloc: 50 Change bloc: 53 Arab-majority parties: 17

As of 8 P.M., voter turnout surpassed that of the 2022 election. Turnout has surged in Arab communities, with several towns already matching or surpassing 2022 totals. But voting is up across Israel, driving record turnout haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…

I can't even begin to describe how insane these numbers are. Israeli Arabs have never turned out like this before.

If the pre-election distinction of "Arab parties" is thrown aside now that the race is over, the anti-Netanyahu bloc has a solid majority of 70 seats. #IsraelElection #Israel

#Netanyahu's bloc trailing behind #Eisenkot's, according to a Channel 13 exit poll after #Israel's election. "Surprise, surprise" - Arab parties will have to be in the next government. Via @haaretzcom

Good day from #Brussels. Here are #my 6️⃣ #impressions on the thinking here about the elections in 🇷🇸 and the country's relations with the 🇪🇺: 1️⃣ The surprise: at the scale of the #StudentList's win over Aleksandar #Vučić, and at how quickly he accepted the result. 2️⃣ Good riddance, but no enthusiasm: Brussels is not mourning Vučić’s defeat, and friends of 🇷🇸 are glad. Yet there is no real enthusiasm about how a new government would approach the 🇪🇺. That judgement rests on the campaign promises and on background talks with the List's representatives, including those who came to Brussels claiming contacts and insight into its thinking. 3️⃣ The 🇲🇰/🇲🇪 comparison: the sense is that this is not a 🇲🇰 2017 moment, when the opposition took power on the wings of a civic movement and restarted stalled reforms. So far there is no Nikola #Dimitrov or Radmila #Sekerinska on the Student List's team. It is seen to be closer to the 2020 🇲🇪 moment, where it took years, and the 2022 #Abazović government, before Brussels got its post-2023 🇪🇺 boost under #Spajić. 4️⃣ The von der Leyen–Costa–Kos signals were deliberate: the 🇪🇺's offer targets where the Student List says it wants to move, democracy and elections, rule of law and the judiciary, anti-corruption, media freedom. A minority of sceptics doubt this narrow approach and the 🇪🇺's ability to help, pointing to 🇦🇱. 5️⃣ Foreign policy matters, but not yet: 🇷🇺 🇽🇰 (🇧🇦) will feed into the formal steps, opening the remaining clusters and meeting the interim rule-of-law benchmarks. For now those steps feel far off: parliament must be constituted, a government appointed, presidential elections held. Only once it is clear who decides and what is decided in Belgrade will the real scope for cooperation and accession process show. What matters immediately is hope that Belgrade will let Podgorica go on deciding for itself. 6️⃣ All this fits the 🇪🇺's wider strategy: Brussels could not absorb a sudden, faster Serbian shift on reforms, including 🇷🇺🇽🇰, even if it came. It is focused on the final push on 🇲🇪, the only candidate seen as realistically able to join before this Commission's mandate ends, and without deeper internal 🇪🇺 reform.

Some 74.3% - almost three-quarters of all voters - cast a ballot as of 8pm Israeli time. Fewer voted overall in 2022.

🚨A decisive defeat for Netanyahu's bloc could unleash an unprecedented wave of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank. Armed extremists, fearing the end of their impunity, may take their revenge on Palestinians. The danger of a bloody backlash must be taken seriously. Now.

Srbija posle Vučića: šta se menja za Kinu? Partnerstvo ostaje, ali tajni ugovori i povlašćeni poslovi dolaze pod lupu. Kontinuitet ciljeva, promena metoda. Može li „specijalni odnos” postati normalan? O tome pišemo u novoj analizi chinainthewesternbalkans.sub…

Two-thirds of Israelis have voted for the past 11 hours. Four hours to go. #Israel

Amid a record high turnout in #Israel more than halfway through the vote - nothing close to it has been seen in decades - and after the historic election in #Serbia, questions linger about how the expanding ties of Israel and the Balkans will evolve. Countries of the Western Balkans are becoming more important in Israel's diversification strategy amid the international outcry over its conduct in the Gaza war and West Bank policy, adding to the already growing weight of traditional partners such as Greece and Romania. Thank you, @v_vuksanovic, for your input - and thanks to @alband2011

To Western commentators, the elections in Serbia were about restoring democracy, but THEY WERE NOT ABOUT THE EU OR RUSSIA!

What just happened in Serbia is (almost) unprecedented: a non-party student-led movement crushed an incumbent semi-authoritarian party in national election. What happens next may be wholly new. 1/6

Vučić made clear he was waiting for the students to fail so that he can seize the opportunity. But pressure on the SNS may already be growing from within. His potential comeback could depend on how the presidential election goes.