The municipal elections in Brazil on Sunday, October 6 revealed a national scenario of less polarization and support for continuity. A clear example of both phenomena is the case of São Paulo, Brazil's economic capital. teleSUR
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00:00And Brazil held municipal elections in more than 5,500 municipalities.
00:04According to data published by the Superior Electoral Court, the Social Democratic Party
00:08and the Brazilian Democratic Movement were in the lead.
00:10Ignacio Lemus with more details.
00:14A slim lead left the current neoliberal mayor, Ricardo Nunes, and the leader of the Homeless
00:20Movement, Guilherme Boulos, in the second round of the elections for the mayor of Sao
00:25Paulo.
00:26The first has the support of former President Jair Bolsonaro, while the second is backed
00:31by President Lula da Silva.
00:34I am very confident in the decision of the people of Sao Paulo.
00:38I am very confident that the people of Sao Paulo will opt for change and that change,
00:43which today was a majority at the polls, is represented in the second round by Marta and
00:48me.
00:49Today we have the largest progressive front in the history of the city of Sao Paulo.
00:54Of those who have the conviction, the glint in their eye that Sao Paulo deserves more.
00:59The result left Pablo Marcol out of the second round.
01:03Bolsonaro's second letter generated cracks in the extreme right with his candidacy to
01:08govern Brazil's largest city.
01:10During the campaign, he was hit with a chair in a television debate while attacking his
01:15opponents.
01:16Marcol will have to explain to the Brazilian justice system the propagation of lies to
01:21harm the left candidate, Guilherme Boulos.
01:25What happened in the debates was a cycle of violence, making politics a tool for entertainment
01:31that is disconnected from the proposals and the problems that we all suffer.
01:36So what we feel is missing in the debates are adults in the room, people debating how
01:41we solve the problems we have today in Sao Paulo.
01:44I feel a great regret in recognizing that social networks are placing influencers and
01:49people disconnected from the political problems as leaders.
01:55Sao Paulo is considered a thermometer for politics in the rest of the country.
02:02Sao Paulo is the economic center of the country, the largest city in the country.
02:07Everything revolves around Sao Paulo, so the impact of the choice of the city of Sao Paulo
02:12and the state of Sao Paulo is very great within the country.
02:15In South America and in the world, Sao Paulo is a city that is evaluated all over the world
02:20to know how Brazil is doing.
02:23Economically I am talking about, not as a landscape, but as a beauty.
02:27Economically, the city of Sao Paulo is a reference.
02:31The elections position the Democratic Socialist Party as the party with the largest number
02:37of mayoralties.
02:39The center-right organization, whose action oscillates between government and opposition,
02:44has greater negotiating weight and will be a contending ground for the 2026 presidential elections.
02:50Behind the 888 mayoralties won by the Democratic Socialist Party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement,
02:56party of the former de facto President Michel Temer and Progressistas, both with similar
03:02ideological spectrum and fields of action to the Democratic Socialist Party, appear
03:07with expressive votes.
03:08Meanwhile, the Workers' Party achieved a slight improvement in the number of municipalities
03:13it will command, while the extreme right, with Bolsonaro at its head, reaffirms itself
03:19as a force with a strong support base.
03:22Next October 27th, 15 capitals will host the ballotage.