Obtained allied candidates with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro important victories on Sunday in the legislative and government elections held in parallel to the presidential duel in Brazil.
“Bolsonatarism can celebrate,” analyst Míriam Leitão wrote in his column in the newspaper O Globo, referring to the fact that he won key governorates and more legislative seats than the Lula da Silva sector.
At least nine former ministers of Bolsonaro achieved triumphs at the polls.
In addition to the President and Vice President of the Republic, Brazilians were called to elect the governors of the 27 states (including the Federal District of Brasilia), the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the 81 seats in the Senate, as well as state legislators. .
The Liberal Party of the Head of State is going to have the largest bench in the Chamber of Deputiesaccording to analysts, and in the Senate, PL and allied groups have won at least 14 of the 27 seats.
Among the new parliamentarians are two controversial former Bolsonaro ministers: the former Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salleswho left the government suspected of corruption, e Edoardo Pazuello, criticized for his management at the head of the Health portfolio at the height of the pandemic that caused nearly 700,000 deaths in Brazil.
Pazuello was even the deputy with the most votes in the state of Rio de Janeiro, the third most populous.
Another PL candidate, Nikolas Ferreira, was the most voted deputy in the countrywith more than 1.4 million votes, just 26 years old.
The list of Bolsonarians in the Senate includes dRoma ex football player Romario (re-elected) to Marcos Ponte, an ancient astronaut and former head of science who ousted an ally of Lula, Márcio França, a favorite in the polls.
Three other former ministers, the ultra-conservative Damares Alves (Female); Tereza Cristina (Agriculture) and Rogerio Marino (Development) and the current Vice Presidentthey were also elected to the Senate, which in 2023 will have to confirm two judges of the supreme court.
The former judge and former minister also enter the upper house Sergio Morowho broke up with Bolsonaro and former prosecutor Dalton Dellagnol.
Both of Lula’s bitter rivals were key figures in the Lava Jato trial, which investigated a massive corruption system at state-owned Petrobras. The two put Lula in prison for 19 months, but the sentence was overturned for procedural irregularities.
Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilians also elected the governors of the 27 states (including the Federal District of Brasilia).
In Rio de Janeiro was elected Claudio Castro (PL) but the biggest surprise occurred in San Pablothe most populous and richest state in Brazil, with the partial victory in the first round of Tarcisio Freitas, former Infrastructure managerwhich appeared second in polls.
Freitas (PL) defeated Fernando Haddad, former mayor of the megalopolis of Sao Paulo and Lula’s dolphin defeated by Bolsonaro in the presidential elections of 2018, and the two They will be measured on October 30th by ballot.
The elections also gave some victories to progressive causes, with the first transfederal MPs from Brazil, Erika Hilton, Duda Salabert and Robeyoncé Lima.
With information from AFP
Source: Clarin
