Brasília - A second bulletin released by the PT Election Commission on its internal election which took place on Sunday (September 18) reports that Ricardo Berzoini, of the Campo Majoritário faction, continues to lead in the race for the presidency of the party with 42.8% of a total of 201,096 votes counted. The party has a total of over 820,000 members who are eligible to vote. However, the election needs the votes of only 15% of eligible voters to be valid. The commission reports that more than 15% have already voted.

At 8:00 pm last night, the situation of the other candidates was as follows: Valter Pomar (Articulação de Esquerda), 17%; Plínio de Arruda Sampaio (Ação Popular Socialista), 13.4%; Raul Pont (Democracia Socialista), 12.7%; Maria do Rosário (Movimento PT), 12%; Markus Sokol (O Trabalho), 1.4%; and Luís Gonzaga da Silva, aka Gegê (Movimentos Populares), 0.6%.

Translator: Allen Bennett