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TeleSUR correspondent Brian Mier reports on the local elections in Brazil, in which voters will choose Mayors, Vice Mayors and Councillors in all 5,569 municipalities. teleSUR

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00:00Hello, you're watching Tercer English.

00:05Brazil is holding local elections in all its municipalities across the country.

00:10Let's go with our correspondent, Brian Meir, for more information on how the election day

00:14is occurring.

00:17Today's local election day in Brazil, and in all 5,569 municipalities, millions of Brazilians

00:25are coming out to choose their next mayors, vice mayors, and over 50,000 city councilors.

00:31In the largest 127 cities, if no candidate reaches the 50% threshold, there'll be a run-off

00:38election on October 27th, but in most places, the election is going to be resolved today.

00:44Here in Recife, incumbent candidate João Campos is expected to break all records today

00:51with the Dada Folha polling agency, predicting he might win by as much as 80% with a communist

00:57party running mate supported by the Workers' Party.

01:01The left has never had much of a foothold in local politics in this country, however.

01:05Right now, the PT only has 185 mayors.

01:08These local elections traditionally have been dominated by old families, many of which trace

01:14their roots back to slavery days, affiliated with center-right parties like the MDB and

01:20União Brasil, which control most of the municipal governments in this country.

01:24However, there's expected to be some gains today, especially in mid-sized cities for

01:29left-wing candidates.

01:30In cities like Uberaba, where a rising star in the Workers' Party named Dandera Tandiras

01:35is expected to win.

01:37Meanwhile, everybody's looking at the election in São Paulo, where there's a near three-way

01:43tie between a housing movement leader from the PSOL party, Guilherme Boulos, on the left,

01:49and two far-right candidates, incumbent mayor Ricardo Nunes, and former YouTube coach Pablo

01:55Marçal, who's made a lot of waves by breaking repeatedly different campaign laws to the

02:01point where the Supreme Court pulled his Instagram account down yesterday.

02:06Polls show that if Nunes makes it to the second round, he'll beat Boulos by over 10%.

02:11However, if Marçal edges out Nunes, the polls show Boulos winning by up to 10%, in what

02:18could be an upset victory for the left in Brazil's largest city.

02:22So, all eyes are on the local elections today in Brazil.

02:26The results should be posted by the end of the night.

02:31Thank you, Brian, for the report.

02:32Stay tuned with Telestar English for more updates in upcoming news briefs.

Brazil | Local election underway in all 5,569 municipalities

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