In its first electoral test since taking power 21 months ago, the party of Brazil’s left-leaning president emerged stronger from nationwide municipal elections but could not come in first in the country’s biggest and most important city, Sao Paulo.
With more than 90 percent of the ballots counted from Sunday’s voting, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Workers Party had won the mayoral race in 322 municipalities, up from 204 four years earlier, the country’s Supreme Electoral Court said. Full Story
