Brazil elections 2022: União Brasil’s Luciano Bivar quits presidential race

The national president of the União Brasil party and federal deputy, Luciano Bivar, gave up his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic.

On July 31, he announced the decision during the party’s convention in Recife, his hometown.

“I decided to return and remain in the Federal Chamber,” he said in his speech. He signaled, however, that the party should have its own candidate.

Sectors of União Brasil argue that the best name to replace Bivar is that of the senator for Mato Grosso do Sul, Soraya Thronicke.

At the Recife event, União Brasil officially made Miguel Coelho’s candidacy for the government of Pernambuco state.

He is the former mayor of Petrolina. “We are proud of everything we have done for Petrolina, and we are ready to do much more for Pernambuco,” the candidate posted on social networks.

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