Paes and Crivella will contest the second round of the elections in Rio | Rio de Janeiro

With 95.19% of the votes counted this Sunday (15), the former mayor had 37% of the valid votes, against 21.86% of the successor, who seeks re-election and received the support of President Jair Bolsonaro (without match). ).

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The second round will take place in two weeks, the 29th, also on a Sunday.

The prediction of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is that the campaign will restart at 5 pm on Monday (16). Radio and television advertising should return on Friday (20).

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A technical problem in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) caused a slowness in the totalization of votes in the municipal elections, delaying the scrutiny. With that, the candidates left the place where they were following the count before the result and announced group interviews for Monday (16).

Before confirming the result, Paes thanked the Cariocas “who went to the polls and gave me first place in this first round,” according to the partial.

Crivella called the second round a “new election” and also thanked voters. He said the dispute will be “electrifying.”

How the candidates voted

Crivella He arrived to vote at 8:50 am at the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Municipal School, in Barra da Tijuca. The mayor was accompanied by his wife, First Lady Sylvia Jane, and their son Marcelo.

“The support that the president [Bolsonaro] gave me was very big. The president had enormous courage in supporting Crivella, when the PSL had Luiz Lima, ”said the mayor.

Paes He came to vote at 10:30 at the Gávea Golf Club, in São Conrado, South Zone of Rio.

The former mayor was also accompanied by his wife and children. Before, he accompanied his son, who voted for the first time in these elections.

First, I want to thank the population. In these last 45 days we walked through the city, we discussed Rio, we debated Rio, and today is the moment when the population arrives sovereign at the polls and decides who will be the future mayor of the city. city, “said Paes, who will oversee the vote count at home with the family.”

Bachelor of Law, Eduardo PaesThe 51-year-old entered politics in 1996, when he was elected councilor for the Liberal Front Party. In 1998, he won a seat as a federal deputy.

Three years later, he was appointed Secretary of the Environment for the city of Rio de Janeiro during the mandate of former mayor César Maia and in 2002 he was re-elected as a federal deputy.

In 2006, Paes ran for the government of Rio de Janeiro, but lost the election. Two years later, in 2008, he won the race for the Rio City Council and in 2012 he was reelected in the first round with 64% of the votes.

In 2018 he ran again for the government of the State of Rio, but ended up defeated by Wilson Witzel (PSC).

Crivella he is from Rio and he is 63 years old – he was born on October 9, 1957. He is a licensed bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Iurd), gospel singer and civil engineer.

He was elected in 2002 to the federal Senate for the first time, by the former PL, currently PR. He was re-elected in 2010, already by the PRB, the party he helped found. He was Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture between 2012 and 2014 in the Government of Dilma.

He returned to the Senate and took leave of absence to run for the city for the third time, after two defeats in 2004 and 2008. In 2016, he won the elections in the second round against Marcelo Freixo. He is currently in the Republican Party.

What the candidates said in the campaign

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“We know that not everything was perfect, but the Carioca has in mind that things were much better in our management. We know the problems of the Cariocas and we know how to manage and know the city. We need to have management and that we have work capacity and a lot of love by Rio “.

“If I have the honor of being mayor again, I will be until the end. It does not mean that I do not want to be governor, one day. But certainly not in 2022. I will serve the term until 2024. If I am going to be a candidate for reelection, it is another story. “

“Rio is coming out of the crisis. It is true that the transport is not good, but it is the cheapest ticket in Brazil. It is true, health is not the best, but it was the best fight against the coronavirus. Who sows, reaps. written in the Bible. We plant, we sweat, we don’t dream, we live reality “