[ad_1]
BRASÍLIA – More discreet and cautious in the second round of the municipal elections after suffering poor results in the first, President Jair Bolsonaro saw three of the six mayoral candidates who supported in the final stretch of the campaign win their disputes this Sunday . During the entire election, he obtained his nomination in a single capital, Rio Branco, of Acre, which elected Tião Bocalom (PP).
In Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro’s electoral seat, the president’s support for Mayor Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) did not bear fruit. Eduardo Paes (DEM) was elected with more than 64% of the valid votes. Given the disadvantage of the ally, Bolsonaro limited himself to citing him once in the second round, in a live broadcast last Thursday, and he refused to go to Rio to participate in campaign events or record a participation in the electoral program. of Crivella.
Read: ‘It was a victory for politics,’ says Paes in his first speech after winning the elections in Rio
In Fortaleza, Sarto (PDT) was elected with 51.69% of the votes, compared to 48.31% for Captain Wagner (Pros), who had also been supported by the president in the first round.
The other defeat occurred in Belém, where Bolsonaro calmly declared his support for Delegate Eguchi (Patriot), who lost this Sunday to Edmilson Rodrigues (PSOL). “If I were a voter in Belém / PA, I would certainly vote,” Bolsonaro replied on Facebook to a voter who defended Eguchi’s name. “Good luck to him,” he added. In the following days Bolsonaro once again defended the vote in Eguchi in comments on the social network, but did not make any more explicit statement.
Saint Paul: ‘It is possible to do politics without hatred’, says Bruno Covas, in his first speech as elected mayor of São Paulo
In the second round, Rodrigues obtained 51.76% of the valid votes, compared to 48.24% for Eguchi. The margin was much narrower than that of the first round, when the PSOL candidate had 11 percentage points more than that of Patriota.
Last week, the last of the campaign, Bolsonaro decided to record videos at the request of allies in Brasilia for three candidates who won this Sunday. Together with Senator Márcio Bittar (MDB-AC), he declared his support for Tião Bocalom (PP), in Rio Branco, which almost won the contest in the first round, with 49.58% of the valid votes. He disputed the elections against Socorro Neri (PSB).
Check out: The election is the first big test at the polls for the new generation of PSDB.
– Hello, dear Bocarom. I have Bittar on my side. In this second round, we are together. Good luck – said the president on the recording.
In another last-minute support, Bolsonaro recorded a video this Thursday with federal deputy Vitor Hugo (PSL-GO) in support of Roberto Naves (PP), elected mayor of Anapolis (GO) with 61.28% of the votes. valid. The president justified his recommendations by citing the “party that is on the other side,” in reference to the PT candidate, Antônio Gomide. In the first round, the situation was also practically defined: Naves had 46.64% and Gomide, 28.87%.
Determination map:see the performance of parties and candidates across the country
A similar speech was used in the video in support of Captain Nelson (Avante), who is running for the city of São Gonçalo with Dimas Gadelha (PT). The president said that the “other side”, the PT, “does not need comment.” Captain Nelson won with 50.79% of the vote, compared to 49.21% for Dimas Gadelha.
– I’m with Captain Nelson. I ask everyone who can join us on this journey, choosing Captain Nelson for the city of São Gonçalo. The other side, you know, is the PT. No comment.
First turn
In the first round, Bolsonaro supported 13 mayoral candidates and only two of them emerged victorious from the polls on the 15th, in medium-sized cities: Mão Santa (DEM, in Parnaíba (PI), and Gustavo Nunes (PSL), in Ipatinga (MG).
Read More: ‘It was not this time, but we will continue winning,’ says Boulos after the defeat in SP
Two others, Crivella, in Rio, and Capitão Wagner, in Fortaleza, went to the second round in second place and lost this Sunday.
Among the defeats, three were in capitals. In São Paulo, Celso Russomanno (Republicans) slumped in the polls after receiving support from Bolsonaro and finished in fourth place. In Manaus, the ally Coronel Menezes (Patriota) came in fifth place, with 11.3% of the valid votes. In Belo Horizonte, Bruno Engler (PRTB) came in second place, but saw Mayor Alexandre Kalil (PSD) re-elected with an expressive vote, more than 63%.
Follow: Real time verification
Not even Bolsonaro’s nominations to city councils have had good success rates. Of the 44 candidates supported by the president, only ten were elected. And, in addition, the vote of the son Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans), re-elected councilor in Rio, was lower than in 2016 and also counted as a setback.
In the only election to the Senate, in a complementary election in Mato Grosso, the candidate Colonel Fernanda (Patriota) was defeated and came in second place despite Bolsonaro’s calls in his favor.
