The current president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, was re-elected Wednesday after obtaining 49 votes against his rival, Rogelio Marinho, former Minister of Regional Development under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Pacheco, from the Social Democratic Party, will preside over the Chamber for another two years after the defeat of Marinho, a member of the Liberal Party, who received 32 votes during the vote to elect the Senate president. The third candidate, Eduardo Girao, withdrew his candidacy in favor of Bolsonaro’s former minister.
After his victory, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke by telephone with the Senate President to congratulate him on his re-election and expressed his willingness to work together, as reported by the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paolo’.
Pacheco’s 49 votes that have given him the reelection are eight less with respect to the vote by which he was elected in 2021, although his advantage over the bolsonarista in this count has been greater than the estimates of the polls, which placed Marinho with 38 supports and the current president of the Senate with 35.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
