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The candidate Eduardo Suplicy was the councilor with the most votes in the city of São Paulo in the elections this Sunday (15). He was reelected, until 12:45 am and 99.92% of the votes counted, with 167,427 votes. The vote for the elections in São Paulo defined the 55 councilors who will make up the City Council from 2021 (see the progress of the count here).
It is the third time that Suplicy is the most voted in a vote in the capital. In 2020, it had about 130,000 fewer votes than in the last elections, in 2016, when it reached 301,446 votes and was also the most voted of the year. In 1988, the PT was elected councilor in São Paulo with 201,549 votes. Upon taking office in 1989, he was elected mayor of São Paulo.
The second most voted candidate on Sunday (15) was elected councilor Milton Leite (DEM), with 132,512 votes. The former mayor had already been the second most voted in 2016, with 107,957 votes. In 2020, it grew by more than 20,000 votes.
Despite being the highest voted in the city, Suplicy got his third lowest vote for the position and believes the coronavirus epidemic hampered his campaign. Spoke like G1 on the phone at dawn this Monday (16) and said that he was already at home, in Jardim Paulistano, lying in bed.
“I’m very happy. This time I spent it like never before in any election because I practically didn’t leave the house. I tried to obey my dear doctor Nelson Carvalhaes Neto, to try to avoid any crowding. I like to hug and everything, so people from my family and friends recommended me [isolamento] to ensure continued good health, “he said.
Eduardo Suplicy (PT) awaits the result of the vote in a square next to his house in São Paulo – Photo: Playback / Twitter
Suplicy said he believes his participation in lives and interviews for vehicles around the world helped him in this year’s re-election campaign. According to the PT, there have been 400 lives since March 23, when it began quarantining at home, and more than 200 interviews for countries such as Portugal, France, Germany, India, Egypt and France.
“This dedication on the Internet has limited my ability to act as in all campaigns on the streets,” he says.
Councilor Eduardo Suplicy participates in an act of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) in 2017 on Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo, on Labor Day (May 1) – Photo: Marcelo Brandt / G1
Suplicy’s political career began in 1977, when he joined the MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement). The following year, he competed in his first election as a candidate for state deputy, obtaining 78,000 votes and being chosen as the second most voted state in that year.
In 1980 he participated in the founding of the Workers’ Party (PT), on February 10. It was for the party that he was elected federal deputy two years later, with 83,000 votes.
Suplicy was a candidate for mayor of São Paulo in 1985, in his first dispute for a majority position by the PT. The following year, he ran for governor of the state.
Eduardo Suplicy has a degree in business administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation School of Business Administration, where he is a tenured professor, and in economics from Michigan State University, in the United States.
