Impress your friends with knowledge of Brazilian local elections
Lula's slap on the wrist concerning impromptu outbursts in favour of beleaguered mayoral candidates is so last week. This week it's Serra's lead over Marta.
Worryingly for the Red Pepper brigade, as ex-polytechnic lecturers in North London don't have votes in Brazil, it looks as if the PT could lose Porto Alegre, according to online news service Bloomberg:
"In Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state, in southern Brazil, opposition candidate Jose Fogaca of the Popular Socialist Party will win the runoff vote against Workers' Party candidate Raul Pont, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported, citing a poll by Ibope. Fogaca has 51 percent of votes compared with 39 percent for Pont, the paper said. In the first round of vote, Pont got 37.62 percent of the valid votes compared with 28.34 percent by Fogaca, the paper said. The Workers' Party has governed Porto Alegre for the past 16 years, the paper said."
More worrying is the quality of reporting on Bloomberg, the blog said.
Though perhaps the red-green types at Red Pepper (though a rival publication, Green Pepper, was spotted at the European Social Forum this weekend) might take some solace from this article on the emergence of the Brazilian Patrido Verde (Green Party) over at InfoBrazil.
posted by Guacamoleville @ 18.10.04
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