Ivan Richard and Iolando Lourenço      Reporters Agência Brasil

Brasília – In accordance with Brazil’s detailed and rigid election rules, today, October 26, all free political commercials on radio and television, as well as paid ads in newspapers and public debates, for the 100 candidates in 50 municipalities who are running for mayor in this Sunday’s runoff elections will come to an end at exactly midnight.   

This Sunday, 31.7 million voters will select mayors and vice mayors (runoff elections take place only in cities with populations of over 200,000 where no one got over 50% of the votes in the first polling that took place on October 7, when there were elections in 5,568 municipalities).

There will be runoff elections in 17 of Brazil’s capital cities, where the main opposition party, PSDB, has the most candidates with eight, followed by the main government party, PT, with six (interestingly, these two parties will face each other only in João Pessoa, Rio Branco and São Paulo; but surrogates will battle throughout the nation; for example, in Manaus, Salvador, Teresinha and Vitoria). The PMDB, PSB and PDT each have three candidates. The PSOL has two. The PPS, PCdoB, PP, PSC, PV, DEM, PTC, PSD and PTB have one.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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