Municipal elections in Brazil: Contest between candidates Bolsonaro and Lula for mayor of Sao Paulo in the second round

Mayor of San Pablo, ricardo nunesEndorsed by former far-right president jair bolsonaro (2019-2022), will run for re-election against Deputy Guilherme BoulosCandidate endorsed by the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaAfter the municipal elections this Sunday.

In one of the closest races in recent decades in the capital of Sao Paulo, Nunes received 29.49% of the vote compared to 29.06% for Boulos. And as per Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) data, it was defined as only 99.52% counting was completed.

extremely influential and enterprising pablo markalwhich divided the field of extreme right with its mainly aggressive and provocative style, ultimately missed the second round by a narrow margin, coming in third place with 28.14% of the votes.

Difference of about 55 thousand votes Prevented this guru, who became famous on social networks by giving motivational talks about earning easy money, from moving towards runoff.

Farther away were socialist deputy Tabata Amaral (9.92%) and television presenter José Luiz Detena (1.84%), who attacked Markle with a chair in a televised debate.

The second round of elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s economic engine and the country’s largest electoral college with 9.3 million voters, It will be celebrated the next day on 27th.

The campaign in the capital of Sao Paulo has been one of the most tense, with incidents of violence between candidates and their advisers at two debates.

Boulos was already in the second round of the 2020 municipal electionsAlthough on that occasion he lost bruno covaswho died of cancer a year later, at which time Ricardo Nunes took over.

He received Lula’s support for this appointment, which was a historic step.This was the first time since redemocratization in 1985 that the Workers’ Party (PT), which was founded by Lula, refused to field its own candidate in the capital of São Paulo.

Boulos, leader of the homeless movement and federal vice-president of the Party of Socialism and Freedom (PSOL), called for unity for “change” to make the city “more just, more civilized and safer”.

“Our project is to make a city more humane for all,” he said shortly before the results were made official.

Nunes, a businessman and Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) activist, ‘turned right’ and received lukewarm support from Bolsonaro in the campaign.

In this last year of his tenure he launched A huge infrastructure improvement plan And, by keeping the public machinery in his favor, he managed to garner centre-right votes.

However, Markle risked her launch, gaining votes from evangelical parishioners, far-right voters and those dissatisfied with her management.

After the investigation, Nunes thanked God for the result in the first round, then thanked the Governor of San Pablo. tarcio de freitasAnd finally to Bolsonaro.

Municipal elections were held in Brazil this Sunday to elect mayors and councilors in 5,569 cities across the country.

(with information from EFE)