Voters in Brazil's largest city choose a mayor following tumultuous campaign

Voters successful Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, are going to nan polls to take betwixt their incumbent Mayor Ricardo Nunes seeking reelection and his challenger, leftist lawmaker Guilherme Boulos

SAO PAULO -- Voters successful Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, started going to nan polls Sunday successful a mayoral title pitting incumbent Mayor Ricardo Nunes against leftist lawmaker Guilherme Boulos.

Nunes has lukewarm support from erstwhile Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro while Boulos is an state of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Different polls published Saturday showed Nunes, who inherited nan mayorship aft Bruno Covas died of crab successful 2021, is nan favourite to win. His advantage against Boulos is greater than nan separator of correction of nan Datafolha and Quaest polls.

Boulos, successful a last-ditch effort for exposure, connected Friday accepted an invitation to statement self-help guru turned far-right leader Pablo Marçal, who vanished 3rd successful nan first information of voting connected Oct. 7. At nan extremity of nan debate, Marçal urged his voters not to ballot Sunday. Lower turnout could activity against Nunes.

Most of nan attraction successful this year's information of municipal elections successful Brazil has been connected Sao Paulo, wherever nan title was marred by episodes of violence involving Marçal successful nan first information of voting. Boulos, a longtime lodging advocator for nan poor, has been campaigning nonstop to debar his 2nd consecutive conclusion successful nan race.

Other Brazilian cities pinch much than 200,000 registered voters are besides holding mayoral elections.

In Rio de Janeiro, incumbent Mayor Eduardo Paes was reelected successful nan first information of voting for his fourth, non-consecutive term. Paes, an enthusiastic instrumentality of Carnival, had Lula’s support but focused his run connected section issues against Bolsonaro’s candidate, Alexandre Ramagem.

Brazilians will beryllium besides watching intimately for results successful Belo Horizonte, 1 of nan country’s biggest cities, wherever polls propose Mayor Fuad Noman faces a adjacent title pinch pro-Bolsonaro campaigner Bruno Engler.

The ballot successful Fortaleza, different of nan nation’s biggest cities, is successful a dormant power betwixt nan campaigner from Lula's Workers' Party, Evandro Leitão, and pro-Bolsonaro challenger André Fernandes.

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