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Viewing cable 04BRASILIA2742, RESULTS OF SECOND ROUND OF BRAZIL'S MUNICIPAL

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04BRASILIA2742 2004-11-01 15:11 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Brasilia
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 BRASILIA 002742 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV SOCI BR
SUBJECT: RESULTS OF SECOND ROUND OF BRAZIL'S MUNICIPAL 
ELECTIONS --  SERRA WINS SAO PAULO AS EXPECTED 
 
REF: A. BRASILIA 2506 
 
     B. RIO DE JANEIRO 1453 
     C. SAO PAULO 1527 
     D. SAO PAULO 1483 
     E. SAO PAULO 1472 
 
1. SUMMARY.  Brazil's 2004 election cycle has come to an end. 
 With second-round runoffs in 43 cities on October 31, 
Brazilians have elected mayors and city councils in all 5,562 
municipalities nationwide.  The most closely-watched races 
went as expected: Jose Serra (PSDB) defeated incumbent Marta 
Suplicy (PT) in Sao Paulo; while Jose Fogaca (PPS) upended 
the PT machine in Porto Alegre.  Elsewhere, a broad coalition 
crushed the PFL machine in Salvador; and PT a leftist 
completed her unlikely path to city hall in Fortaleza. 
Overall these elections continue the trend that began in the 
mid-1990s and accelerated with the 2002 national elections: 
the emergence of Lula's PT and the PSDB of former-President 
Cardoso as the two strongest national parties, with the PMDB 
and PFL trying to hold their ground.  These were local 
elections, with coalitions often contrary to those at the 
national level, and with local issues and personalities on 
display.  As such, they offer uncertain predictions, at best, 
for the 2006 national elections and beyond.  Yet it seems 
likely that the PT and PSDB will continue to be the primary 
wellsprings for national-level politics in the coming years, 
while other parties large and small will continue to wield 
significant regional influence.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2004 ELECTIONS TURN OUT WELL FOR PT AND PSDB 
-------------------------------------------- 
2.  The second-round runoffs in Brazil's municipal elections 
were held on October 31.  Of Brazil's 5,562 municipalities, 
only those with populations greater than 200,000 are eligible 
for runoffs (smaller towns use plurality voting).  Thus 43 
elections were held this week in state capitals and other key 
cities.  In Sao Paulo, Jose Serra (PSDB -Brazilian Social 
Democratic Party), who lost to Lula in the 2002 presidential 
race, defeated incumbent Marta Suplicy (PT -Workers' Party). 
In Porto Alegre, Jose Fogaca (PPS -Popular Socialist Party) 
defeated PT leftist Raul Pont, ending the PT's sixteen-year 
run in city hall (see Sao Paulo septel for details on the 
southern states).  In Salvador, the PFL (Liberal Front Party) 
machine of Antonio Carlos Magalhaes suffered a crushing 
defeat as its candidate, Senator Cesar Borges, was thrashed 
by the PDT's (Democratic Labor Party) Joao Henrique, who led 
a broad oppositionist coalition.  In Fortaleza, PT leftist 
Luizianne Lins defeated PFL conservative Moroni Torgan. 
Lins' victory was improbable because the PT national party 
supported another candidate in the first round.  And in 
Manaus, Serafim Correa (PSB) upset old-style politico 
Amazonino Mendes (PFL). 
 
3.  The overall national trend of this election cycle was the 
continued emergence of President Lula's PT and the opposition 
PSDB as the strongest parties nationwide, followed by the two 
other traditional powerhouses: the centrist PMDB (Party of 
the Brazilian Democratic Movement) and the conservative PFL. 
These four are the only parties to win over 10 million votes 
nationwide.  But in certain areas and depending on local 
circumstances, personalities, and coalitions, the smaller 
parties --such as the PPS and the communist PCdoB-- also did 
well.  At the national level, the PMDB is a member of the 
PT's governing coalition, while the PSDB and PFL form the 
bulk of the opposition. 
 
RESULTS IN THE STATE CAPITALS 
----------------------------- 
4.  Fifteen of Brazil's 26 state capitals held runoff 
elections on October 31.  These are key races by definition 
because the mayor of the capital generally has influence 
second only to the state governor in terms of party 
consolidation, pork distribution, and policy implementation. 
Results of the state capital races are as follows: 
 
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST: 
 
- Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo:  Jose Serra (PSDB) defeated incumbent 
Marta Suplicy (PT), 55-45%, in the nation's highest-profile 
race. 
- Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul: Jose Fogaca (PPS) led a 
broad coalition in defeating Raul Pont (PT), 53-47%.  The PT 
had held city hall for sixteen years. 
- Curitiba, Parana: Beto Richa (PSDB) defeated Angelo Vanhoni 
(PT), 55-45%. 
- Florianopolis, Santa Catarina: Dario Berger (PSDB) defeated 
Chico Assis (PP), 58-42%. 
- Vitoria, Espirito Santo: Joao Coser (PT) crushed Cesar 
Colnago (PSDB), 58-42%. 
 
NORTHEAST: 
 
- Salvador, Bahia:  State Deputy Joao Henrique (PDT) led a 
broad coalition in knocking off the PFL machine's candidate, 
Senator Cesar Borges, 75-25%.  The magnitude of this loss 
suggests it may be the beginning of the end for PFL strongman 
Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, who continues to hold many city 
halls in the interior. 
- Fortaleza, Ceara: PT leftist Luizianne Lins got 
second-round support from the PT national party and the local 
PSDB machine to defeat Moroni Torgan (PFL), 56-44%.  The PT 
national party did not support Lins' longshot candidacy in 
the first round. 
- Natal, Rio Grande do Norte:  Incumbent Carlos Eduardo (PSB) 
barely held off Luiz Almir (PSDB), 52-48%. 
- Maceio, Alagoas: Cicero Almeida (PDT) defeated Alberto 
Sexta-Feira (PSB), 57-43%. 
- Teresina, Piaui: Silvio Mendes (PSDB) defeated Adalgisa 
Moraes Souza (PMDB), wife of Lula-baiting Senator Mao Santa 
(PMDB), 58-42%. 
 
NORTH AND CENTER-WEST: 
 
- Manaus, Amazonas:  The PSB's Serafim Correa scored a 
stunning upset over Amazonino Mendes (PFL), a dinosaur who 
had served two terms each as mayor and governor, 52-48%. 
Mendes ran 15 points ahead of Correa in the first round. 
- Goiania, Goias: Another old-style politico, Iris Rezende 
(PMDB), knocked off PT incumbent Pedro Wilson in the state 
that surrounds Brasilia, 57-43%. 
- Porto Velho, Rondonia: City Council President Roberto 
Sobrinho (PT) defeated Dr. Mauro Nazif (PSB), 54-46%. 
- Cuiaba, Mato Grosso: In the city's first-ever runoff, 
Wilson Santos (PSDB) defeated Alexandre Cesar (PT), 53-47%. 
- Belem, Para: Senator Duciomar Costa (PTB) defeated Senator 
Ana Julia Carepa (PT), 58-42%. 
 
RESULTS IN OTHER KEY CITIES 
--------------------------- 
5. Some key races that were not capital cities: 
 
- Contagem, Minas Gerais: PT challenger Marilia Campos 
knocked off PSDB Ademir Lucas, 60-40%.  Coupled with the PT's 
first-round win in state capital Belo Horizonte, this sets up 
Minas Gerais along with Sao Paulo as future PSDB/PT 
battlegrounds. 
 
- Campos, Rio de Janeiro.  A tumultuous campaign in the 
hometown of presidential pretender Anthony Garotinho (ref B) 
saw dirty tricks and 500 army troops keeping the peace on 
election day.  Garotinho's PMDB candidate, Geraldo Pudim, was 
defeated, 55-45%, by Carlos Campista (PDT) who allied an 
array of anti-Garotinho forces. 
 
- Nova Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro:  PT upstart Lindberg Farias 
has established a PT foothold in a state where the party is 
weak by knocking off PMDB incumbent (and Garotinho machine 
candidate) Mario Marques, 58-42%. 
 
PARTY READOUT 
------------- 
6.  These were local elections, so their prophetic value for 
the 2006 presidential and gubernatorial races is limited. 
But in broad strokes they tend to confirm the widely-held 
assumption that heading into the 2006 elections Lula's PT, 
allied with an assortment of mostly left-of-center parties, 
will face the PSDB-led opposition bloc, both in the 
presidential race and the Sao Paulo gubernatorial race.  In 
terms of the dynamics of the big four parties: 
 
- the PT won 16.3 million votes nationwide in this cycle and 
is still a big-city labor-based party that is expanding in 
many interior areas and is the fastest-growing party overall. 
 Nationwide it elected 174 mayors in 2000 and 412 this year. 
The loss of Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre is a deep 
disappointment to party leaders. 
 
- the PSDB of former-President Cardoso is in opposition to 
the PT.  It won 15.7 million votes nationwide and has 
powerful state-based machines in a broad arc from Sao Paulo 
and Minas through Tocantins to Piaui and Ceara in the 
northeast.  Nationwide it elected 987 mayors in 2000 and 871 
this year. 
 
- the PMDB won 14.2 million votes nationwide but does not 
fare well in big cities and has no national stars.  It has 
dominant machines in the three southern states, has 
Garotinho's wounded machine in Rio, and has traditional 
"coronels" in the northeast.  The party is in Lula's 
coalition at the federal level, but will ally with any party 
at the local level.  Nationwide it elected 1,253 mayors in 
2000 and 1,057 this year. 
 
- the PFL is a conservative party that polled 11.3 million 
votes nationwide.  It is more in the way of an alliance of 
"coronels" (some say dinosaurs) in a number of distinct 
strongholds.  It polls well in the northeast, and has 
redoubts in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santa Catarina. 
Antonio Carlos Magalhaes' machine still has a hammerlock on 
the interior of Bahia but was soundly whipped by a 
left-of-center coalition in the state capital, Salvador. 
Nationwide the PFL won 1,027 mayors in 2000 and 790 this year. 
 
COMMENT - FEW SUPRISES 
---------------------- 
7.  The second round runoffs went mostly as expected.  The 
PT's losses in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre were predicted by 
the polls for several weeks.  The two real surprises were the 
magnitude of the defeat suffered by the Magalhaes' PFL 
candidate in Salvador (75-25%), and the upset victory of 
Serafim Correa in Manaus over another old-timer, Amazonino 
Mendes.  Both results point to a subtext that was commented 
on in the 2002 elections and continued this month:  many of 
the old machines and dinosaurs are showing weakness.  This 
trend is far from consolidated, and new coronels (such as 
Garotinho) are always eager to replace the old.  One 
columnist sees this trend as a healthy strengthening of 
Brazil's two-decade old democracy, with voters increasingly 
looking for competence and integrity instead of voting at the 
instructions of the local machine.  If this trend continues, 
it will be good news for all Brazilians. 
DANILOVICH