12 candidates will run in Brazilian presidential election

Twelve candidates will run in Brazil’s presidential election, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) announced Monday after the deadline for registering candidacies ended today.

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT, left) and current President Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party, right) are the top two favorites to win, according to all polls.

Lula da Silva is running with former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin as vice president, while Bolsonaro has made former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto his running mate.

According to the polls, the third candidate to receive the most votes is former minister Ciro Gomes of the Workers’ Party (PDT, center-left), who will be accompanied by Ana Paula Matos as vice president.

The other contenders for the Brazilian presidency are

• Pablo Marçal of the Republican Party of Social Order (Pros, center) and Fátima Pérola as vice president;
• Sofia Manzano of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB, far left), with Antonio Alves as vice president;
• Felipe D’Avila (Novo, right), with Tiago Mitraud as vice president;
• Léo Péricles (Popular Union), with Samara Martins as vice president;
• Simone Tebet of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), with Mara Gabrilli as vice president.

Other candidates are

• Vera Lúcia of the United Socialist Workers Party (PSTU), with Raquel Tremembé as vice president;
• Senator Soraya Thronicke of the Brazilian Union, with Marcos Cintra as vice president;
• Roberto Jefferson of the Brazilian Workers Party (PTB), with Father Kelmon as vice president; and
• José Maria Eymael of the Christian Democracy, with Professor Bravo as vice president.

Elections will be held in Brazil on Sunday, Oct. 2, to elect the country’s president and vice president, its 27 governors, and its deputies and senators. If no candidate for president or governor receives 50 percent plus one vote, a runoff election will be held on Sunday, Oct. 30.

A record 156,445,011 voters will cast ballots in this year’s election. All of the state’s 5,570 municipalities will hold the process simultaneously from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Brazilian time.

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