Ricardo Nunes and Guilherme Boulos, candidates with the support of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the head of state, Lula da Silva, will compete in the second round of municipal elections in São Paulo, on October 27.
In the largest city in Latin America, with a population slightly larger than the population of Portugal, approximately 30 thousand votes separated Ricardo Nunes, the current mayor of São Paulo, from the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), and Guilherme Boulos, vice-federal from Brazil. Party Socialism and Liberdade (PSOL), at the end of the first lap.
Em Former coach Pablo Marçal took third placewho managed, without the support of Bolsonaro, to divide the real right in the capital of São Paulo.
Pablo Marçal received 28.14% of the votes, being very close to him 29.06% from Guilherme Boulos and of 29.49% of the current mayors of the citywhen 99.52% of the votes were counted, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) showed, which has already prescribed a second round.
A in fourth place, Tabata Amaral with almost 10% of the voteshaving already announced that he will support Guilherme Boulos in the second round: “I will vote for Guilherme Boulos. Because I cannot and would not be able to cast my vote on a project directed by Ricardo Nunes”, he said.
“But you know, Guilherme Boulos and I represent projects that are very different for São Paulo and for Brazil”, emphasized the young 30-year-old vice-federal.
Pablo Marçal has not yet commented on whether or not he will support Ricardo Nunes in the second round.
For you, Jair Bolsonaro has already guaranteed that he will advance in the campaign for the second round of elections to try to re-elect Ricardo Nunes..
It was not so close to the election in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest electoral college, with five million voters, where the current president Eduardo Paes was re-elected with 60.44%, he managed to overcome the 50% vote mark and settle the election. in the first round.
Eduardo Paes, from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), served two terms in a row as mayor of Rio de Janeiro (2009-2016) and returned in 2020 to the position for which he was re-elected last Sunday.
Bolsonaro, whose birthplace and political stronghold is Rio de Janeiro, supported Alexandre Ramagem, who headed the Brazilian Intelligence Agency during his government (2019-2022), and came second, with 30.95% of the votes, against 60.44%.
Almost 156 million Brazilians were called on Sunday to elect mayors and councilors of 5,569 cities in the country.
Of the 5,569 municipalities that will participate in these elections, only 103 areas will be able to choose the mayor in the second round, which is scheduled for October 27.
Brazilian electoral law provides for a second round to be held in cities with more than 200,000 voters and when the candidate with the most votes cannot exceed half of the valid votes, excluding blank and invalid votes.